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About Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman was a printer, journalist and Civil War nurse who spent his life expanding a single book of poems, Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855. Its long, unrhymed lines celebrating ordinary people, the body and democracy changed American poetry.
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- “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass, 1855
- “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass, 1855