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  • Because, to paraphrase Walt Whitman, the powerful play continues, and I seek to contribute a verse.

    The Friday Top 5 2008

  • Because, to paraphrase Walt Whitman, the powerful play continues, and I seek to contribute a verse.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • "The name Walt Whitman usually encourages thoughts of poetry, comradeship, equality - and America.

    PinkNews.co.uk 2009

  • To paraphrase Walt Whitman's famous Casual Encounters post: The Web is large .

    How Facebook Exposed Us All as Freaks 2008

  • There was a kind of Walt Whitman feeling in the air that made me want to sing; and finally I could resist no longer.

    Set in Silver 1901

  • A man who leaves his office and gets into a canoe on a Canadian river, sure of ten days 'release from the cares of business and housekeeping, has a thrill of joy such as Walt Whitman has here and there thrown into his poetry.

    Emerson and Other Essays John Jay Chapman 1897

  • It is allied to the experiences of European mystics of whom St Teresa is a striking example, though less saintly persons, such as Walt Whitman and J.A. Symonds, might also be cited.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

  • "Walt Whitman," declared Colonel Ingersoll, "has dreamed great dreams, told great truths, and uttered sublime thoughts.

    The Good Gray Poet 1895

  • On stage, he celebrated the wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa, the humanism of Walt Whitman and the observations of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges .

    Folk Singer Facundo Cabral Killed in Guatemala Associated Press 2011

  • This excerpt from Walt Whitman's "Miracles" celebrates the joys of summer in the city with his relentless sense of wonderment.

    John Lundberg: Poems That Celebrate the Summer John Lundberg 2011

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