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Walt Whitman

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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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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


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Be curious, not judgmental.


— Walt Whitman


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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.


— Walt Whitman


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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.


— Walt Whitman


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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.


— Walt Whitman


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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.


— Walt Whitman


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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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I exist as I am, that is enough.


— Walt Whitman


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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.


— Walt Whitman


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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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