WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, <br /> And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man's life? <br /> And so will some one, when I am dead and gone, write my life? <br /> (As if any man really knew aught of my life; <br /> Why, even I myself, I often think, know little or nothing of my real <br /> life; <br /> Only a few hints--a few diffused, faint clues and indirections, <br /> I seek, for my own use, to trace out here.)<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-i-read-the-book/
