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Walt Whitman

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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?


— Walt Whitman


#i #large #me #never #thoughts

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


— Walt Whitman


#life

Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.


— Walt Whitman


#sex #death

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.


— Walt Whitman


#charity #give #i #i do #lectures

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me


— Walt Whitman


#life

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.


— Walt Whitman


#life

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me


— Walt Whitman


#poetry #new-york-city

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.


— Walt Whitman


#greatest #poem #states #themselves #united

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.


— Walt Whitman


#highland #leaves-of-grass #nature #poetry #song

I see great things in baseball.


— Walt Whitman


#sports #baseball






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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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