Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass

Quotes

• “re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and yo...”
• “I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a mirac...”
• “This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson d...”
• “TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, onc...”
• “I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, ...”
• “Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to...”
• “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs t...”
• “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
• “If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.”
• “Peace is always beautiful.”
• “Resist much, obey little.”