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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

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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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.

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

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I accept reality and dare not question it.

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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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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 31st, 1819

Died: March 26th, 1892

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