About Walt Whitman
1819 – 1892
American poet and essayist who revised 'Leaves of Grass' across nearly four decades, celebrating democracy, the body and the self.
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“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.”
“I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse.”