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Walt Whitman famously wrote, "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."Walt Whitman = famous US poet (1819-1892)
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It was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, and he had carried it with him throughout the war.† (source)
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I was reminded by Walt Whitman to think of the past, and I awaited "The Fire Next Time" with James Baldwin.† (source)
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We were studying the poetry of Walt Whitman: Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again Vacant faces.† (source)
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In thin black pen, the song title "Walt Whitman's Niece" had been circled.† (source)
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I mouth the names I read off the spines, at least the ones I can make out: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth.† (source)
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While talking of another Brooklyn laureate, Walt Whitman, I found it easy not to pay perfect attention to what Leslie was saying.† (source)
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She was dazzled by Papa's loving man, Walt Whitman, whose poetry was like talking — or was his talking like poetry?† (source)
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The other champion, Walt Whitman, demanded a real dictionary that "will give us all the words that exist in use, the bad words as well as any."† (source)
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That radical individualism is politically charged in Lawrence, just as it is in Walt Whitman (whom he admired greatly) and Ralph Waldo Emerson in their very different ways.† (source)
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I saw Moses, whose hair recalled portraits of Walt Whitman, a splendidly theatrical Moses, wandering through the desert at the head of the Jews, with a dark and fiery eye and a long staff and the stride of a Wotan.† (source)
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Angel had come as pupil to this dairy in the idea that his temporary existence here was to be the merest episode in his life, soon passed through and early forgotten; he had come as to a place from which as from a screened alcove he could calmly view the absorbing world without, and, apostrophizing it with Walt Whitman— Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, How curious you are to me!† (source)
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He's fond of the poems of Walt Whitman, and Leaves of Grass was on the bench beside him.† (source)
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"Walt Whitman's Niece" was the first song on side two.† (source)
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Does it have Walt Whitman?† (source)
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Most of this probably would not surprise and much of it might delight Walt Whitman, whom we quoted at the beginning, appealing for a language of "unhemmed latitude."† (source)
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