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• The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
  -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), III, Reading...
• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
  -- Walt Whitma...
• Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
  Ample are time and space--ample the fields of nature. -- CONTINUITIES, Walt Whitma...
• I exist as I am, that is enough. -- Walt Whitma
• Resist much, obey little. -- Walt Whitma
• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. -- Walt Whitma
• Faith is the antiseptic of the soul. -- Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass", preface
• Prais'd be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.
  -- Walt Whitma...
• After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains?
  Nature remains. -- Walt Whitma...