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.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.Walt Whitman
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy
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