I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I ha... - Walt Whitman

"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."

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

"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 myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.."

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."