Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on. - Walt Whitman

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Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.

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About Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American journalist and poet, most famous for his lifelong work on his book Leaves of Grass.

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O baffled, baulked, bent to the very earth, Oppressed with myself that I have dared to open my mouth, Aware now that, amid all the blab whose echoes recoil upon me, I have not once had the least idea who or what I am, But that before all my insolent poems, the real ME stands yet untouched, untold, altogether unreached, Withdrawn

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