Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Although the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death.

Leaves of Grass

“I am the poet of the body, and I am the poet of the soul.

The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me,

The first I graft and increase upon myself,

 The latter I translate into a new tongue.”

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