... What living and buried speech is vibrating here... what howls restrained by decorum... - Walt Whitman

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... What living and buried speech is vibrating here... what howls restrained by decorum...

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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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