I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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• Walt Whitman:

  I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

• Walt Whitman:

  Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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  Be curious, not judgmental.

• Walt Whitman:

  The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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  The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

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  I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its

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  A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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  Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

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  And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

• Walt Whitman:

  Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.