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“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
But I shall be good health to you nonetheless
And filter and fibre your blood.”

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“I act as the tongue of you,
… tied in your mouth…. in mine it begins to be loosened.”

“Let your soul stand cool and composed
before a million universes.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

“A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.”

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

All seems beautiful to me.

Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”

“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean”

“I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.”

“I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw,
It alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”

“it makes such differenceyou read”

“I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.”

“I and this mystery, here we stand.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

“I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell”

“have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”