"Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?……" — Walt Whitman
"Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has."
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Walt Whitman
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422 Quotes by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman has 422 quotes on this site.
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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And…
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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet…
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
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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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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the…
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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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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at…
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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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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and…
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next…
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If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it…
— George Carlin
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— William J. Clinton
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I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement,…
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...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to…
— Harry Browne
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The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of…
— Frederick Douglass
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than…
— Frederick Douglass
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The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no…
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