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"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." — Walter Whitman — Quotes for Free

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A selected quote by Walter Whitman.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Walter WhitmanSource: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself (1892 edition)

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves

Source: Letter to H. L. Pierce (Apr. 6, 1859)

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains

Source: The Social Contract, book 1 (1762)