#be

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#am #behold #curious #each #every

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#bad #best #god #good #i

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#believe #dance #dancers #delights #drink

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#constraint #contrary #every #law #laws

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing

The beautiful uncut hair of graves. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#graves #hair

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#beauty #departure #independence #rely #themselves

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#employment #following #hero #man #may

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana. ↗