Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass (1855)
WW
Walt Whitman quotes
1819-1892 · Writers and poets
American poet, author of Leaves of Grass.
3 quotes, 3 traced to where Whitman said or wrote them.
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)
I exist as I am, that is enough.
Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass (1855)