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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“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.”
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, now thou art gone and never must return!”
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”