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“He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”

— Walt Whitman, "Talk to an Art-Union" (1839)

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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