Quote by Walt Whitman
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!) – Walt Whitman

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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. – Walt Whitman

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Art is born of humiliation. – W. H. Auden

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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates

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To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. – William Blake

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