Quote by Walt Whitman
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? – Walt Whitman

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You taught me all about love, all about faith, and then God turned your lessons inside out, let me see the underside of every good thing you gave me. – Margaret Blair Young, Heresies of Nature, 2002

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. – Sylvia Plath

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My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for integrity in the dictionary. Truthful doesnt really cover it, or genuine. It should be like integritus. – Rashida Jones

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