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title: "3 Clear Sweet Quotes By Walt Whitman"
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> [Sure as the most certain sure … plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/sure-as-the-most-certain-sure-plumb-in-the-uprights-well-entreated/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/clear-and-sweet-is-my-soul-clear-and-sweet-is-all-that-is-not-my-soul/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [“Songs of myself Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/songs-of-myself-clear-and-sweet-is-my-soul-and-clear-and-sweet-is-all/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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## More by Walt Whitman

> [O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/o-lands-o-all-so-dear-to-me-what-you-are-i-become-part-of-that/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [“Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/each-of-us-inevitable-each-of-us-limitless-each-of-us-with-his-or-her/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/comerado-this-is-no-book-who-touches-this-touches-a-man-is-it-night/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-have-sometimes-thought-that-the-laws-ought-not-to-punish-those/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/oh-while-i-live-to-be-the-ruler-of-life-not-a-slave-to-meet-life-as-a/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [“it makes such difference where you read”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/it-makes-such-difference-where-you-read/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/wisdom-is-not-finally-tested-in-the-schools-wisdom-cannot-be-pass-d/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/strange-is-it-not-that-battles-martyrs-blood-even-assassination/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-think-i-could-always-live-with-animals-the-more-you-re-around/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-am-the-poet-of-the-body-and-i-am-the-poet-of-the-soul-the-pleasures/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/so-here-i-sit-in-the-early-candle-light-of-old-age-i-and-my-book/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/re-examine-all-you-have-been-told-dismiss-what-insults-your-soul/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/this-is-what-you-shall-do-love-the-earth-and-sun-and-animals-despise/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/each-of-us-inevitable-each-of-us-limitless-each-of-us-with-his-or-her-2/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

> [Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/silence-what-can-new-york-noisy-roaring-rumbling-tumbling-bustling/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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