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Walt Whitman

: Selected Poems 1855-1892

A century after his death, Whitman is still celebrated as America's greatest poet. In this startling new edition of his work, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents over two hundred poems in their original pristine form, in the chronological order

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“I am not to speak to you—I am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone, I am to wait—I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Attraction, Love, Infatuation, Fall in love, liking someone

“Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved!”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetic, love quotes, Expression of Love

“...merely touching you, is enough—is best...”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, affection, Touch, Feelings of Love

“I am he that walks with the tender and growing night; I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Connection, Universe, Walking, Natural, connection with nature

“I am the poet of the body, And I am the poet of the soul.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Poetic, personal, Body and Soul, Body

“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it…”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: personal, Personality, self awareness, Acceptance, Mindset

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Satisfaction, Soul, Truth, Belief, Life

“Once unquestining obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Freedom, Liberty, Politics, nation

“Resist much, obey little”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Resistance, obedience, Life, Living, Thoughts

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Secret, Discovering, Growing Up, Growth, live