Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
From Walt Whitman
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
When I give I give myself.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
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