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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Prose Works. 1892.

I. Specimen Days

230. Samples of My Common-Place Book

I OUGHT not to offer a record of these days, interests, recuperations, without including a certain old, well-thumb’d common-place book, filled with favorite excerpts, I carried in my pocket for three summers, and absorb’d over and over again, when the mood invited. I find so much in having a poem or fine suggestion sink into me (a little then goes a great ways) prepar’d by these vacant-sane and natural influences.