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Walt Whitman

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Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back! Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping, I discover myself on the verge of the usual mistake.


— Walt Whitman


#dreams

Resist much, obey little.


— Walt Whitman


#resistance

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.


— Walt Whitman


#life

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.


— Walt Whitman


#change

We were together. I forget the rest.


— Walt Whitman


#euphoria #nostalgic #cute

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.


— Walt Whitman


#behind #face #fall #keep #shadows

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.


— Walt Whitman


#soul #truth #whatever

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


— Walt Whitman


#contentment #family #family

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.


— Walt Whitman


#song

Do anything, but let it produce joy.


— Walt Whitman


#enjoy-life #live-life #life






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The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. By May 1 Whitman received a promotion to a slightly higher clerkship and publiWalt Whitmand Drum-Taps. Another possible lover was Bill Duckett.

His poetry presented an egalitarian view of the races and at one point he called for the abolition of slavery but later he saw the abolitionist movement as a threat to democracy. Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31 1819 – March 26 1892) was an American poet essayist and journalist. Whitman's major work Leaves of Grass was first publiWalt Whitmand in 1855 with his own money.

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