“I Think it is lost….. but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost.
The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
shall duly flame again.”
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Walt Whitman181
American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892Related quotes
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Source: Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940), III
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