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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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”
“Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe.”
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”