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Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness. — Martin J. Whitman

I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day. — Walt Whitman

Stout as a horse — Walt Whitman

Eventually someone will find out the truth. It could be you. — Criag Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. — Walt Whitman

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
[Give me the splendid silent sun] — Walt Whitman

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. — Walt Whitman

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness. — Walt Whitman

Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body. — Walt Whitman

And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN — Jack Kornfield

To behold the day-break!
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate. — Walt Whitman

All truths wait in all things, — Walt Whitman

I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul ... — Walt Whitman

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean — Walt Whitman

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. — Walt Whitman

I am enamour'd of growing out-doors, Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods, — Walt Whitman

Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, — Walt Whitman

Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have. — Keith Fullerton Whitman

The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home. — Sarah Helen Whitman

Long and long has the grass been growing,
Long and long has the rain been falling,
Long has the globe been rolling round. — Walt Whitman

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it. — Walt Whitman

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature. — Walt Whitman

Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on. — Walt Whitman

My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, with the twirl of my tongue I encompass words and volumes of words — Walt Whitman

I lean and loaf at my ease ... observing a spear of summer grass. — Walt Whitman

What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you? — Walt Whitman

The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule. — Walt Whitman

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. — Walt Whitman

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth. — Walt Whitman

Copulation is no more foul to me than death is. — Walt Whitman

Agonies are one of my changes of garments. — Walt Whitman

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed. — Walt Whitman

Sure as Life holds all parts together, Death holds all parts together. — Walt Whitman

Nothing endures but personal qualities. — Walt Whitman

We convince by our presence. — Walt Whitman

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
— Walt Whitman

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out. — Walt Whitman

Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly, — Meg Whitman

I am the man, I suffered, I was there. — Walt Whitman

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious. — Walt Whitman

The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile. — Sarah Helen Whitman

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves. — Walt Whitman

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent. — Walt Whitman

Give me such shows
give me the streets of Manhattan! — Walt Whitman

I believe that much unseen is also here. — Walt Whitman

Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines. — Edgar Lee Masters

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge

Caution seldom goes far enough. — Walt Whitman

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product
And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green. — Walt Whitman

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away. — Sarah Helen Whitman

I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake. — Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. — Walt Whitman

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. — Walt Whitman

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. — Federico Garcia Lorca

That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb. — John Green

In the faces of men and women, I see God. — Walt Whitman

family, farewell. Yours affectionately, — Narcissa Whitman

Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration! — Walt Whitman

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? — Walt Whitman

I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am. — Walt Whitman

Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.
As if I were not puzzled at myself! — Walt Whitman

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. — Walt Whitman

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am an encloser of things to be. — Walt Whitman

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. — Walt Whitman

We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund. — Martin J. Whitman

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry. — Mae Whitman

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me! — Walt Whitman

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. — Walt Whitman

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. — Andrew Sullivan

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. — Walt Whitman

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child. — Mae Whitman

I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place. — Walt Whitman

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? — Walt Whitman

I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe. — Slim Whitman

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time. — Walt Whitman

I love doctors and hate their medicine. — Walt Whitman

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you. — Walt Whitman

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends. — Walt Whitman

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! — Walt Whitman

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over ... — Walt Whitman

My words itch at your ears till you understand them — Walt Whitman

Am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness. - Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road — Anonymous

I tramp a perpetual journey. — Walt Whitman

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. — Walt Whitman

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded. — Allen Ginsberg

All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it — Walt Whitman

Something there is more immortal even than the stars. — Walt Whitman

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself. — Walt Whitman

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. — Walt Whitman

I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation. — Walt Whitman

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process. — Keith Fullerton Whitman

We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman

The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript. — Walt Whitman

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them. — Walt Whitman

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. — Walt Whitman

Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams. — Walt Whitman

There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ... — Walt Whitman

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul? — Walt Whitman

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. — Walt Whitman

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. — Walt Whitman