All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the inst…

Walt Whitman
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.90, NYU Press
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.90, NYU Press

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