"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."

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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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