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Walt Whitman1819–1892

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

Walt Whitman on art

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

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