“I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.”

—  Walt Whitman , book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

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