And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass (1855)
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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To Old Age

I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as
it pours in the great Sea.

poem by Walt Whitman
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Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

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The Untold Want

THE untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

poem by Walt Whitman
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Perfections

ONLY themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves,
As Souls only understand Souls.

poem by Walt Whitman
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