Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don`t believe I deserved my friends.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then, I contradict myself,
(I am large - I contain multitudes.)

To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you,
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To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.