“You don’t often see
me mad: I don’t dare get mad: I get so damned mad when I get mad
that it shakes me up too much - leaves ugly results: so I hold myself
in sternly: have to: yes, must.”
-Walt Whitman
Horace
Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 9 vols (1906-1996) 4:
8.