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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.34, University of Iowa Press
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.