"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me."

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About Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was an American poet and essayist best known for Leaves of Grass. His free-verse style and expansive voice reshaped modern poetry in English.

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