The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a tru… - Walt Whitman

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The road to wisdom is paved with excess.

The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

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 mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.

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I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.

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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. - Walt Whitman

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