| I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| To have great poets there must be great audiences too. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. |
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| You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition.... Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| ...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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| A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. |
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- Walt Whitman |
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