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The Columbia World of Quotations.
1996.
NUMBER:
54199
QUOTATION:
“I gave no prescriptions,
And those who have taken my moods for prophecies
Mistake the matter.”
ATTRIBUTION:
Louis Simpson (b. 1923), U.S. poet. Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain (l. 20–22). . .
New Poets of England and America; Second Selection. Donald Hall and Robert Pack, eds. (1962) Meridian Books.
The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press.
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