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…

— Walt Whitman

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

— Walt Whitman

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give myself.

— Walt Whitman

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give myself.

— Walt Whitman

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity When I give myself.

— Walt Whitman

Camera do this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

— Walt Whitman

Come, said my Soul Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one),That should I after death invisibly return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves),Ever with pleas’d smiles I may keep on, Ever and ever yet the verses owning — as, first, I here and now, Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,

— Walt Whitman

Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

— Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).

— Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

— Walt Whitman