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Quotes by Walt Whitman
- The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
- The future is no more uncertain than the present.
- The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
- The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
- The real war will never get in the books.
- There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
- To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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