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" The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. "
Walt Whitman
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" And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "
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" Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. "
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" There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. "
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" I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. "
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" The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. "
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" Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. "
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Fortune
Good
" Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "
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Death
Nothing
" To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. "
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Any
Die
" Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. "
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Face
You
" Be curious, not judgmental. "
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" I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. "
Walt Whitman
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Friendship
Like
" Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. "
Walt Whitman
Race
Language
Free
" Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. "
Walt Whitman
Seeing
Feeling
Me
" The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. "
Walt Whitman
Single
Universe
Theory
" After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. "
Walt Whitman
Business
You
Politics
" If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. "
Walt Whitman
Human
Any
Body
" Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. "
Walt Whitman
Last
Whatever
Said
" The future is no more uncertain than the present. "
Walt Whitman
Than
Future
More
" Freedom - to walk free and own no superior. "
Walt Whitman
Walk
Free
Freedom
" I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. "
Walt Whitman
Past
Say
Prove
" Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. "
Walt Whitman
Other
People
Our
" I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. "
Walt Whitman
Believe
Stars
Nature
" I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. "
Walt Whitman
God
Curious
Who
" The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. "
Walt Whitman
Greatest
City
Woman
" There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. "
Walt Whitman
Spirit
Day
Lose
" I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. "
Walt Whitman
Sports
Great
Game
" Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? "
Walt Whitman
Enough
You
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" To have great poets, there must be great audiences. "
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Audiences
Great
" Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. "
Walt Whitman
Million
Your
Stand