Your very flesh shall be a great poem... - Walt Whitman

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Your very flesh shall be a great poem...

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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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"All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch?)”

-from "Song of Myself
Leaves of Grass · August 1, 2006 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance
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