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title: "108 Walt Whitman Quotes by 90 authors"
description: "Browse 108 Walt Whitman quotes by 90 authors. Discover the best Walt Whitman sayings and thoughts."
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> [I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-maclane/i-have-never-read-a-line-of-walt-whitman/)

[Mary MacLane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-maclane/)

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> [I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-have-the-kiss-of-walt-whitman-still-on-my-lips/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [“What would Walt Whitman do?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-risk-hallberg/what-would-walt-whitman-do/)

[Garth Risk Hallberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-risk-hallberg/)

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> [He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-mumford/he-who-touches-the-soil-of-manhattan-and-the-pavement-of-new-york/)

[Lewis Mumford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-mumford/)

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> [“Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls.   Walt Whitman”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/only-themselves-understand-themselves-and-the-like-of-themselves-as-2/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

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> [Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/walt-whitman-he-who-laid-end-to-end-words-never-seen-in-each-other-s/)

[David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/)

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> [Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/federico-garc-a-lorca/not-for-a-moment-beautiful-aged-walt-whitman-have-i-failed-to-see/)

[Federico Garcia Lorca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/federico-garc-a-lorca/)

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> [It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-wentworth-higginson/it-is-no-discredit-to-walt-whitman-that-he-wrote-leaves-of-grass-only/)

[Thomas Wentworth Higginson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-wentworth-higginson/)

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> [My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-spencer/my-very-identities-as-a-reader-and-a-writer-began-at-the-walt-whitman/)

[Paula Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-spencer/)

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> [I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-sullivan/i-think-there-were-two-great-gay-americans-obviously-and-that-was/)

[Andrew Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-sullivan/)

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> [“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-haig/anne-sexton-knows-the-mind-walt-whitman-knows-grass-but-emily/)

[Matt Haig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-haig/)

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> [Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/walt-whitman-defended-the-sacredness-of-love-the-purity-of-passion/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/molecules-are-moving-universes-are-colliding-generations-are-being/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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> [I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/i-saw-you-walt-whitman-childless-lonely-old-grubber-poking-among-the/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

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> [We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/we-all-fear-loneliness-madness-dying-shakespeare-and-walt-whitman/)

[Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-bloom/)

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> [“Be not dishearten’d—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, “Over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-goolrick/be-not-dishearten-d-affection-shall-solve-the-problems-of-freedom-yet/)

[Robert Goolrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-goolrick/)

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> [“Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop’d. I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-harrod-buhner/be-not-discouraged-keep-on-there-are-divine-things-well-envelop-d-i/)

[Stephen Harrod Buhner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-harrod-buhner/)

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> [Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/walt-whitman-and-emerson-are-the-poets-who-have-given-the-world-more/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [ “Annie Savoy: \[narrating\] Walt Whitman once said, "I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bull-durham/annie-savoy-narrating-walt-whitman-once-said-i-see-great-things-in/)

[Bull Durham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bull-durham/)

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> [“Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mcdowell/look-down-fair-moon-and-bathe-this-scene-pour-softly-down-night-s/)

[Michael McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mcdowell/)

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> [I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bradley/i-m-somebody-who-has-to-physically-experience-an-environment-in-order/)

[Bill Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bradley/)

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> [“Be composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/be-composed-be-at-ease-with-me-i-am-walt-whitman-liberal-and-lusty-as/)

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

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> [My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/my-chief-literary-influences-have-been-paul-laurence-dunbar-carl/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kurlansky/i-would-like-to-know-what-politicians-eat-on-the-campaign-trail-what/)

[Mark Kurlansky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kurlansky/)

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> [So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-o-hara/so-who-s-perfect-washington-had-false-teeth-franklin-was-nearsighted/)

[John O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-o-hara/)

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> [“Get comfortable with ambiguity. It’s not all laid out for you at once because it wasn’t just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-chazz-chute/get-comfortable-with-ambiguity-it-s-not-all-laid-out-for-you-at-once/)

[Robert Chazz Chute](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-chazz-chute/)

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> [“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/54-the-children-of-the-spanish-lion-said-ruben-dario-a-born-optimist/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

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> [“‎"What Zolberg calls the 'Melville principle' is an excellent expression of the fundamental right to free movement... for one surely needs to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anouar-majid/what-zolberg-calls-the-melville-principle-is-an-excellent-expression/)

[Anouar Majid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anouar-majid/)

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> [“English majors want the joy of seeing the world through the eyes of people who—let us admit it—are more sensitive, more articulate,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-edmundson/english-majors-want-the-joy-of-seeing-the-world-through-the-eyes-of/)

[Mark Edmundson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-edmundson/)

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> [“But since we’re on the topic of identity and narrative voice - here’s an interesting conundrum. You may know that The Correspondence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-browning/but-since-we-re-on-the-topic-of-identity-and-narrative-voice-here-s/)

[Barbara Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-browning/)

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> [“Isabel never despaired, even though I think she knew everything that was going to happen, right from the beginning. There was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-gaffney/isabel-never-despaired-even-though-i-think-she-knew-everything-that/)

[Patricia Gaffney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-gaffney/)

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> [“The funeral was a vast, elaborate affair, befitting a monarch or head of state, in marked contrast to the essential simplicity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-chernow/the-funeral-was-a-vast-elaborate-affair-befitting-a-monarch-or-head/)

[Ron Chernow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-chernow/)

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> [“Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. To You WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/walt-whitman-1819-1892-leaves-of-grass-1900-to-you-whoever-you-are-i/)

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

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> [“... in fact any good mind properly taught can think like Euclid and like Walt Whitman. The Renaissance, as we saw, was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-barzun/in-fact-any-good-mind-properly-taught-can-think-like-euclid-and-like/)

[Jacques Barzun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-barzun/)

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> [“Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/where-are-we-going-walt-whitman-the-doors-close-in-an-hour-which-way/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

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> [I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mae-whitman/i-really-love-poetry-i-m-a-big-e-e-cummings-fan-and-a-big-walt/)

[Mae Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mae-whitman/)

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> [ “\[Walt\] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-henry/walt-whitman-would-never-get-in-the-way-of-a-boy-trying-to-get-off/)

[Lisa Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-henry/)

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> [“The last thing I want to hear from a crotch, I yell, is Walt Whitman!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-whipple/the-last-thing-i-want-to-hear-from-a-crotch-i-yell-is-walt-whitman/)

[Ron Whipple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-whipple/)

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> [“I exist as I am, that is enough" Song of Myself by Walt Whitman”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-douglas/i-exist-as-i-am-that-is-enough-song-of-myself-by-walt-whitman/)

[Penelope douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-douglas/)

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> ['Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/beloved-renegade-is-a-meditation-on-walt-whitman-on-tenderness-on/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

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                        "text": "“Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their backs with arms toss’d wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon. —Walt Whitman Sequel to Drum-Taps”",
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                        "text": "I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, 'You sound like Walt Whitman.' Well, I'll take that comparison.",
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                        "text": "My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.",
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                        "text": "I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman ate while writing the verse that defined America, what mid-westerners bring to potlucks, what is served at company banquets, what is in a Sunday dinner these days, and what workers bring for lunch.",
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                        "text": "So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.",
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                        "text": "“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors. ”",
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                        "text": "“‎\"What Zolberg calls the 'Melville principle' is an excellent expression of the fundamental right to free movement... for one surely needs to explain what is natural about state structures, in rich and poor countries alike, that confine the movements of billions of people to live and play anywhere they want. Melville's vision, echoed in Walt Whitman's poetry, is a far better prospect to imagine than the persistence of a primitive form of nationalism based on exclusion and expulsion, or a social model of gated communities antagonizing the poor by keeping them out of bounds. These are simply not rational long-term solutions for an already besieged planet. If Moors or Moriscos are the residual prototype of Gypsies, Native Americans, Africans, Jews, Hispanics, and, in general, the West's undesirables since 1492, we might as well avoid the tragedies that dogmatic concepts of national identities have engendered -- the expulsion of Jews in 1492; the expulsion of Moriscos in 1609; the scapegoating of minorities as infidels in the nation's holy body politic; and the horrors of genocide visited on various non-Europeans and on Jews in Nazi Germany -- by accepting our true nature as mestizos in a world where national, racial, ethnic, and cultural boundaries are dangerous illusions.”",
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                        "text": "“English majors want the joy of seeing the world through the eyes of people who—let us admit it—are more sensitive, more articulate, shrewder, sharper, more alive than they themselves are. The experience of merging minds and hearts with Proust or James or Austen makes you see that there is more to the world than you had ever imagined. You see that life is bigger, sweeter, more tragic and intense—more alive with meaning than you had thought. Real reading is reincarnation . There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess. When we walk the streets of Manhattan with Walt Whitman or contemplate our hopes for eternity with Emily Dickinson, we are reborn into more ample and generous minds. \"Life piled on life / Were all too little,\" says Tennyson's \"Ulysses,\" and he is right. Given the ragged magnificence of the world, who would wish to live only once? The English major lives many times through the astounding transportive magic of words and the welcoming power of his receptive imagination. The economics major? In all probability he lives but once. If the English major has enough energy and openness of heart, he lives not once but hundreds of times. Not all books are worth being reincarnated into, to be sure—but those that are win Keats's sweet phrase: \"a joy forever.”",
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                        "text": "“But since we’re on the topic of identity and narrative voice - here’s an interesting conundrum. You may know that The Correspondence Artist won a Lambda Award. I love the Lambda Literary Foundation, and I was thrilled to win a Lammy. My book won in the category of “Bisexual Fiction.” The Awards (or nearly all of them) are categorized according to the sexual identity of the dominant character in a work of fiction, not the author. I’m not sure if “dominant” is the word they use, but you get the idea. The foregrounded character. In The Correspondence Artist, the narrator is a woman, but you’re never sure about the gender of her lover. You’re also never sure about the lover’s age or ethnicity - these things change too, and pretty dramatically. Also, sometimes when the narrator corresponds with her lover by email, she (the narrator) makes reference to her “hard on.” That is, part of her erotic play with her lover has to do with destabilizing the ways she refers to her own sex (by which I mean both gender and naughty bits). So really, the narrator and her lover are only verifiably “bisexual” in the Freudian sense of the term - that is, it’s unclear if they have sex with people of the same sex, but they each have a complex gender identity that shifts over time. Looking at the various possible categorizations for that book, I think “Bisexual Fiction” was the most appropriate, but better, of course, would have been “Queer Fiction.” Maybe even trans, though surely that would have raised some hackles. So, I just submitted I’m Trying to Reach You for this year’s Lambda Awards and I had to choose a category. Well. As I said, the narrator identifies as a gay man. I guess you’d say the primary erotic relationship is with his boyfriend, Sven. But he has an obsession with a weird middle-aged white lady dancer on YouTube who happens to be me, and ultimately you come to understand that she is involved in an erotic relationship with a lesbian electric guitarist. And this romance isn’t just a titillating spectacle for a voyeuristic narrator: it turns out to be the founding myth of our national poetics! They are Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman! Sorry for all the spoilers. I never mind spoilers because I never read for plot. Maybe the editor (hello Emily) will want to head plot-sensitive readers off at the pass if you publish this paragraph. Anyway, the question then is: does authorial self-referentiality matter? Does the national mythos matter? Is this a work of Bisexual or Lesbian Fiction? Is Walt trans? I ended up submitting the book as Gay (Male) Fiction. The administrator of the prizes also thought this was appropriate, since Gray is the narrator. And Gray is not me, but also not not me, just as Emily Dickinson is not me but also not not me, and Walt Whitman is not my lover but also not not my lover. Again, it’s a really queer book, but the point is kind of to trip you up about what you thought you knew about gender anyway.”",
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                        "text": "“Isabel never despaired, even though I think she knew everything that was going to happen, right from the beginning. There was a Walt Whitman poem she liked, especially the part that went - 'All goes onward and outward,/Nothing collapses/And to die is different from/What anyone supposes/And Luckier.' She tried to believe that, and it gave her some comfort, I know. She was very brave. Always. She hid her anguish and sadness, although I know she felt them. Because she wasn't losing only one person she loved - as we have. She was losing all of them.”",
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                        "text": "“Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. To You WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands; Even now, your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you, Your true Soul and Body appear before me, They stand forth out of affairs—out of commerce, shops, law, science, work, forms, clothes, the house, medicine, print, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying. Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem; I whisper with my lips close to your ear, I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you. O I have been dilatory and dumb; I should have made my way straight to you long ago; I should have blabb’d nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing but you. I will leave all, and come and make the hymns of you; None have understood you, but I understand you; None have done justice to you—you have not done justice to yourself; None but have found you imperfect—I only find no imperfection in you; None but would subordinate you—I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you; I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself. Painters have painted their swarming groups, and the centre figure of all; From the head of the centre figure spreading a nimbus of gold-color’d light; But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color’d light; From my hand, from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever. O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you! You have not known what you are—you have slumber’d upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; (Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?) The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk; I pursue you where none else has pursued you; Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom’d routine, if these conceal you from others, or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me; The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others, they do not balk me, The pert apparel, the deform’d attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside. There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you; There is no virtue, no beauty, in man or woman, but as good is in you; No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you; No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you. As for me, I give nothing to any one, except I give the like carefully to you; I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you. Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard! These shows of the east and west are tame, compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers—you are immense and interminable as they; These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution—you are he or she who is master or mistress over them, Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution. The hopples fall from your ankles—you find an unfailing sufficiency; Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself; Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided, nothing is scanted; Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.”",
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