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Today we’re going to talk about Walt Whitman, and I’m gonna try to be cool about it, but you’re gonna find out pretty quickly that I am absolutely head over heels in love with everything he’s ever written. So the particular excerpt I’m going to talk about today is a quote from Walt Whitman’s famous poem, Song of the Open Road, which was published in 1856 in his collection Leaves of Grass. 

It has become my personal manifesto ever since I read it for the first time in high school. I wrote it on my graduation cap. I doodled it on algebra notes, I sharpied it onto my arm before I was able to get it tattooed. I underlined it in the copies of Leaves of Grass at the library. I actually borrowed the audiobook copy of Leaves of Grass — it was copied onto a CD and I used to drive around and listen to it in my car. I’m full-on psycho about this quote. I just think maybe it’s the most important thing ever written and I need everyone to know about it.

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