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Walt Whitman

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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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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.


— Walt Whitman


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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.


— Walt Whitman


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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.


— Walt Whitman


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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?


— Walt Whitman


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Produce great men, the rest follows.


— Walt Whitman


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Simplicity is the glory of expression.


— Walt Whitman


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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.


— Walt Whitman


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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.


— Walt Whitman


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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.


— Walt Whitman


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The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. By May 1 Whitman received a promotion to a slightly higher clerkship and publiWalt Whitmand Drum-Taps. Another possible lover was Bill Duckett.

His poetry presented an egalitarian view of the races and at one point he called for the abolition of slavery but later he saw the abolitionist movement as a threat to democracy. Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31 1819 – March 26 1892) was an American poet essayist and journalist. Whitman's major work Leaves of Grass was first publiWalt Whitmand in 1855 with his own money.

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