All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery …

Walt Whitman
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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). ✨ Walt Whitman (2016). Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary, p.99, University of Iowa Press
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