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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Quotes: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
         

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.


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