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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-12-24:

"The greatest poet forms the consistence of what is to be from what has been and is. He drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them again on their feet .... he says to the past, Rise and walk before me that I may realize you." -- Walt Whitman, in the preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855.