"This is the city, and I am..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
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More by Walt Whitman
“Long and long has the grass been growing,Long and long has the rain been falling,Long has the globe been rolling round.”
“Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!”
“More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!”