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«I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
contested, Contests, digestion, election, exercise, grander, know nothing, national, triumphant
«When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
applause, astronomer, astronomers, became, from time to time, glide, glided, glides, glide by, gliding, lecture, lectured, lecture room, lecturing, moist, mystical, rising, unaccountable, wandered
«Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
come after, Coming of age, fascination, fascinations, old age
«It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
blessing, doors, dyspeptic, larger, losses, nervous, out-of-door, out of doors, oxygen, relieve, repair, tend
«Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
accretion, accretions, compacted, composition, compositions, dialect, dialects, English language, freely, range, the English, viewed
«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.»
«The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
constellation, constellations, nearer, suffice, sufficient, very well
«I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms»
«Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs -- in religion, literature, colleges and schools -- democracy in all public and private life....»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
colleges, elections, interaction, interactions, pass on, private life, private school
«They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
demented, discussing, dissatisfied, dissatisfying, kneels, mania, owning
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