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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

~Walt Whitman

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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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

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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

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The real war will never get in the books.

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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

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

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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 31st, 1819

Died: March 26th, 1892

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