Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
Birthday: May 31
Death: March 26
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.
source: Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.8, NYU Press
topic: Dying, Boots, Leaves Of Grass