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Make no quotations

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  • Title: Make no quotations
  • Date: Between 1847 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00305
  • Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: Edward Grier speculates, based on the style and content, that this manuscript probably dates to between 1847 and 1855 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:159).
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Make no quotations." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00305.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto] Make no quotations, and no reference to any other writers.—nor Lumber the writing with nothing—let it fly go as lightly as a bird flies in the air—or a fish swims in the sea Be careful to temper down too much personality or [cut away]   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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