413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
The History of Literature
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Comrade of the Simplest a Teacher of the Thoughtfullest
"I resist anything better than my own diversity. I breathe the air, but leave plenty after me," he writes. "The moth and the fish eggs are in their place. The suns i see and the sons i cannot see are in their places." He adds: 'It's all kind of insane and kind of breathless'
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