"Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…"
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Walt Whitman
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Quotes by Walt Whitman
"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,"
"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."
"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."
"Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch."
"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"
"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,"
"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
"Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)"
"Songs of myselfClear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn."
"Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…"
"This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me"
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes."
"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."
"I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened."
"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."