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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman
Country
Proof
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?
Walt Whitman
Desire
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman
Man
World
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Walt Whitman
Hair
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman
Beauty
Actions
Departure
Independence
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
Future
Present
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
Death
Nothing
Will
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
Earth
Now
Open
Sleep
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman
Vision
Measure
Speech
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman
Fortune
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman
Day
Gain
Spirit
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman
Flowers
Garden
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman
Freedom
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
Time
First
Nothing
Sleep
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman
Time