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Walt Whitman Quotes

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: May 31, 1819
Died: March 26, 1892

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

When I give, I give myself.
Walt Whitman

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

The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman

I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman

The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman

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