To have great poets, there must be great audiences. ✨ Walt Whitman, Fl…

Walt Whitman
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences. ✨ Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose, p.521, NYU Press
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences. ✨ Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose, p.521, NYU Press

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