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Walt Whitman1819–1892

Walt Whitman on poetry

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself (1855), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Song of Myself, 52

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