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Walt Whitman1819–1892

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

Walt Whitman on beauty

“Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)”, in Complete Prose Works (1892)

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