Walt Whitman Quotes
Through Me Many Long Dumb Voices,
Voices Of The Interminable Generation Of Prisoners And Slaves,
Voices Of The Diseas'd And Despairing And Of Thieves And Dwarfs,
Voices Of Cycles Of Preparation And Accretion,
And Of The Threads That Connect The Stars, And Of Wombs And Of The Father-stuff,
And Of The Rights Of Them The Others Are Down Upon,
Of The Deform'd, Trivial, Flat, Foolish, Despised,
Fog In The Air, Beetles Rolling Balls Of Dung.
Through Me Forbidden Voices,
Voices Of Sexes And Lusts, Voices Veil'd And I Remove The Veil,
Voices Indecent By Me Clarified And Transfigur'd.
I Do Not Press My Fingers Across My Mouth,
I Keep As Delicate Around The Bowels As Around The Head And Heart,
Copulation Is No More Rank To Me Than Death Is.
I Believe In The Flesh And The Appetites,
Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Are Miracles, And Each Part And Tag Of Me Is A Miracle."
-from "Song Of Myself
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