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All truths wait in all things.
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
In the faces of men and women, I see God.
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
Strong and content I travel the open road.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.
These are the days that must happen to you.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
O amazement of things-even the least particle!
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !
NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.