Your very flesh shall be a great poem...
("Leaves of Grass")
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.Walt Whitman
A child said What is the grass fetching it to me with full hands.
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I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Walt Whitman
Lovebuds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman
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