“To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Miracles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”
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