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The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
Walt Whitman
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Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
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Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.
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Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
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I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
Walt Whitman
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Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
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Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
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Come lovely and soothing death,Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,In the day, in the night, to all, to each,Sooner or later, delicate death.
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In the faces of men and women I see God.
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I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
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All, all for immortality,Love like the light silently wrapping all.
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
Walt Whitman