Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the… - Walt Whitman

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Agonies are one of my changes of garments,
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,
My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

Walt Whitman

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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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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

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O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?

If he breathes into anything that was before thought small, it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe.

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