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“Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“Are you the new person drawn toward me?”

Walt Whitman

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”

Walt Whitman

Source: Drum Taps

“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.
I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”

Walt Whitman

Source: Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”

Walt Whitman

“I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“Give me solitude — give me Nature — give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities!”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Leaves of Grass

“Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.”

Walt Whitman

Drum Taps

“I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.”

Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok

Starting from Paumanok. 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman.”

Walt Whitman

Song of the Broad-Axe
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)