"Are you the new person drawn toward me?……" — Walt Whitman
"Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?"
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Walt Whitman
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422 Quotes by Walt Whitman
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
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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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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many…
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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the…
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
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