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Steve April
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3/26/2026 12:18:59 AM
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A Dose of Walt Whirman
"Logic and sermons never convince, there is more truth in the damp of the night."
"Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it."
"How every good has its danger, and every dangerous power may be so restrained and guided as to be a source of good." (Whitman paraphrasing Goethe)
"Sing of the foolish as much as the wise..."
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman came to his fame slowly, very slowly.
Wrote/published "Songs of Myself" in his 40s, after years in journalism, and a few years teaching school in his 20s.
Shocked/scandalized the powers-that-be, with his vivid descriptions of sensuality, and broad-ranging views.
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