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To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too. - Walt Whitman (Notes Left Over Quotes)

To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.

Source:Notes Left Over (1888), Ventures, on an Old Theme; Complete Prose Works (David Mckay, ed. 1897), Page 324
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  • Name: Walt Whitman
  • Profession: Poet, Essayist, Journalist
  • Born: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
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