A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and f…

Walt Whitman
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.
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I refuse putting from me the best that I am. ✨ Walt Whitman (2012). Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition, p.41, Courier Corporation
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. ✨ Song of Myself l. 1324 (written 1855)
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. ✨ Walt Whitman (2012). Selected Poems, p.33, Courier Corporation
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. ✨ Song of Myself l. 994 (written 1855)
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. ✨ Walt Whitman (2009). Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile, p.34, University of Iowa Press

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

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