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Conrad Aiken - Whitman had a profound influence on me....
Whitman had a profound influence on me. ... He was useful to me in the perfection of form, as a sort of compromise between the strict and the free. (Conrad Aiken)

Whitman had a profound influence on me. ... He was useful to me in the perfection of form, as a sort of compromise between the strict and the free.

Conrad Aiken

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