Quote by Walt Whitman

"I will play a part no longer—Why should I exile myself from my companions? O you shunn'd persons! I at least do not shun you, I come forthwith in your midst—I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest."

Walt Whitman, from Native Moments

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