Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, - Walt Whitman

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Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die,

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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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Birth Name: Walter Whitman
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Rabindranath Tagore Emily Dickinson Lord Byron Elizabeth Barrett Browning Mary Oliver

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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
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