“We are no better than you, what we inclose you inclose, what we enjoy you may enjoy.”
About Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892
Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in a modest farmhouse in West Hills, on Long Island, New York, into a working-class family that embodied the restless energy and struggles of early America. He was the second of nine children born to Walter Whitman, a carpenter and farmer of English descent who wrestled with…