"Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him."

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That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?

— Jennifer Haigh