I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. - Walt Whitman

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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

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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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Rabindranath Tagore Emily Dickinson Lord Byron Elizabeth Barrett Browning Mary Oliver

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Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails, She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night, By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
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