"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."

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Walt Whitman

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“God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.”
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
“I didn't go to bars much. One drunken ***** was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.”
“Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'”
“I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.”
“In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.”
“What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.”
“The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.”

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