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Walt Whitman

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.


— Walt Whitman


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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.


— Walt Whitman


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If you done it, it ain't bragging.


— Walt Whitman


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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.


— Walt Whitman


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The future is no more uncertain than the present.


— Walt Whitman


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I accept reality and dare not question it.


— Walt Whitman


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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.


— Walt Whitman


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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.


— Walt Whitman


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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.


— Walt Whitman


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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.


— 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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