Living
Stronger Lessons
From Leaves of Grass
Living
Have you learn’d lessons only of those who admired you, and were
tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learn’d great lessons from those who reject you, and
brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt,
or dispute the passage with you?
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MLA
Whitman, Walt. “Stronger Lessons.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/333/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “Stronger Lessons.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/333/.
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