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Leaves of Grass Quotes
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs: him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Source:
(Brooklyn, ed. 1855), Preface, Page xii
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Book:
Leaves of Grass
Writer:
Walt Whitman
Genre:
Poetry, Classics
Published:
1855
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