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I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

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O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,I will have thousands of globes a...more

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I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.

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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, ...more

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In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street and every one is signed by God's...more

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Song of myselfA child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than ...more

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I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

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

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

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In the faces of men and women I see God.

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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 fir...more

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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.