Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps. Dirge for Two Veterans
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My muse is male, has the silvery complexion of the moon, and never speaks to me directly.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 6 “Synesthesia” (p. 299)
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