"I am the man, I suffered, I..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
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“In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.”
“I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.”
“The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.”
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“These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.”
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
“I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.”
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“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!”
“on the instant clamorous eaves,A climbing moon upon an empty sky,And all that lamentation of the leaves,Could but compose man's image and his cry.”
“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.”