“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
— Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: nature
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To have great poets, there must be
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
— Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: poetry
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I believe a leaf of grass is
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
— Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: nature
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The genius of the United States is
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
— Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: best
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After you have exhausted what there is
“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
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: business
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I say that democracy can never prove
“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
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: art
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I may be as bad as the
“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
— Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: best
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After you have exhausted what there is
“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
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: politics
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And I will show that nothing can
“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
— Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: death
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks
“I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”
— Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: time
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that
“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
— Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: beauty
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