10 quotes from Walt Whitman, US writer, born on this date in 1819.
- Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
- I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
- I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
- I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
- To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
- Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
- A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
- Those who love each other shall become invincible.
- Of all sad words, of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' Let's add this thought, unto this verse: 'It might have been a great deal worse.
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