Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
-- Walt Whitman
   
Walt Whitman   Name:
Walt Whitman
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
American
Birth:
May 31, 1819
Death:
March 26, 1892
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