• The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf - the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist 1819-1892
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. unfathomed
2. retrospect
3. greatness
4. infinite
5. present
6. growth

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The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf - the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past? by : Walt Whitman

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