Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman

Printer, nurse, poet. Wrote one book my whole life and kept rewriting it. Everything I see goes in.

Walt Whitman

Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, give me a field where the unmowed grass grows, give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape.

Walt Whitman
·1855·Brooklyn, New York, USA

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, / If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

Franklin D. Roosevelt — First Inaugural Address
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First Inaugural Address

Franklin D. Roosevelt

March 4, 1933

Walt Whitman

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 Whitman
·1855·Brooklyn, New York, USA

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, / And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.