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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

~Walt Whitman

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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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?

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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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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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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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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

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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.

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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

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Produce great men, the rest follows.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 31st, 1819

Died: March 26th, 1892

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