I conn'd old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me. - Walt Whitman

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I conn'd old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.

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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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"Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.

This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."

-from "Starting from Paumanok"

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