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Montaigne says

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  • Title: Montaigne says
  • Date: Around 1883; 14 March 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03436
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: The partial letter on the verso from D. L. Proudfit, which Whitman has crossed out, is dated March 14, 1883.
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Ty Alyea Nicole Gray Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt and Unknown. "Montaigne says." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03436.xml (TEI)

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Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
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Montaigne says somewhere it is just as rare and great to fully appreciate a great masterpiece of art, (or is it especially a poem?) —as to create said the masterpiece, itself.

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