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title: "3 Whitman Said Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/we-did-meet-forty-years-ago-at-that-time-we-were-both-influenced-by/)

[Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/)

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> [ “Annie Savoy: \[narrating\] Walt Whitman once said, "I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bull-durham/annie-savoy-narrating-walt-whitman-once-said-i-see-great-things-in/)

[Bull Durham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bull-durham/)

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> [“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/he-read-me-whitman-of-whom-he-was-very-fond-and-also-emerson-i-didn-t/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

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