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Walt Whitman

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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.


— Walt Whitman


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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.


— Walt Whitman


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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.


— Walt Whitman


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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.


— Walt Whitman


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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.


— Walt Whitman


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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.


— Walt Whitman


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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.


— Walt Whitman


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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.


— Walt Whitman


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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.


— Walt Whitman


#believe #deserved #doubt #friends #i

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.


— Walt Whitman


#dismiss #insults #re-examine #soul #told






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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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