Walt Whitman
American · 1819–1892
American poet whose groundbreaking free verse collection Leaves of Grass celebrated democracy, nature, love, and the human body with unprecedented openness.
Wikipedia ↗“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
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Song of Myself ↗ (1855)
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
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Song of Myself ↗ (1855)
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume, / For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
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“I have said that the soul is not more than the body, / And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, / And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is.”
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Song of Myself, 48 ↗ (1855)
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
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Song of Myself, 52 ↗ (1855)