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Walt Whitman

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Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.


— Walt Whitman


#inspirational #soul #spirituality #wisdom #inspirational

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.


— Walt Whitman


#every #light #miracle #moment

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.


— Walt Whitman


#life-and-death #living #death

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.


— Walt Whitman


#poetry #poets #poets

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.


— Walt Whitman


#ecstasy #individuality #joy-of-life #life

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


— Walt Whitman


#books #me #metaphysics #more #satisfies

My words itch at your ears till you understand them


— Walt Whitman


#teaching #teaching-as-leadership #leadership

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.


— Walt Whitman


#dirtiest

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.


— Walt Whitman


#lost-love #lovers #the-notebook #age

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


— Walt Whitman


#life #sail-forth #seek #untold-want #voyager






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The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. By May 1 Whitman received a promotion to a slightly higher clerkship and publiWalt Whitmand Drum-Taps. Another possible lover was Bill Duckett.

His poetry presented an egalitarian view of the races and at one point he called for the abolition of slavery but later he saw the abolitionist movement as a threat to democracy. Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31 1819 – March 26 1892) was an American poet essayist and journalist. Whitman's major work Leaves of Grass was first publiWalt Whitmand in 1855 with his own money.

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