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Walt Whitman Quotes about Dying

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If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

Death, Dying, Looks

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Death, Dying, Different

1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself', section 6.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Beautiful, Death, Dying

1860 Leaves of Grass, 'Proto-Leaf', later renamed 'Starting From Paumanok' (from 1867).

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

Dying, Boots, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.8, NYU Press

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