The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Quote by Walt Whitman

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Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until...

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until...

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in...

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in...

He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly...

He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly...

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks...

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks...

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon...

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon...

In the faces of men and women I see God.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

The real war will never get in the books

The real war will never get in the books

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering...

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering...

It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger...

It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger...

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his...

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his...

We convince by our presence.

We convince by our presence.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he...

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he...