The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman gathers the evolving work of a poet who made the self expansive enough to contain a democracy. The center is Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855 and revised across multiple editions until Whitman's death.
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Walt Whitman
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“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes”
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”