"O me! O life!... of the questions..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?
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“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”
“And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.”
“Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.”
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“Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?”
“If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word?”
“There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.”