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“we become the stories we tell ourselves”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”
― Walt Whitman

“Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”
― Walt Whitman

“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”
― Walt Whitman

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

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― Walt Whitman