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

Other quotes by Walt Whitman

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. – Walt Whitman

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Time
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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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Parties
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. – Aristotle

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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. – Victor Hugo

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If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. – Jerry Saltz

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Ive been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. – Barbra Streisand

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Its a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you. – Dawn Fraser

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Though lovers be lost love shall not. – Dylan Thomas

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Im not making any bets on the future. – Michelle Williams

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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. – Yao Ming

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