Fire Whitman

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“The duce of any other rule have I to govern myself by in this affair—and if I had one ... I would twist it and tear it to pieces, and throw it into the fire when I had done—Am I warm? I am, and the cause demands it—a pretty story! is a man to follow rules—or rules to follow him?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)