I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
-- Walt Whitman
   
Walt Whitman   Name:
Walt Whitman
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
American
Birth:
May 31, 1819
Death:
March 26, 1892
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