The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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