Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
— Walt Whitman
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I Sing the Body Electric
(excerpt)
by  Walt Whitman
I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
A Nation’s Strength
Walt Whitman
Not gold, but only man can make
A people great and strong;
Men who, for truth and honor’s sake,
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly —
They build a nation’s pillars deep
And lift them to the sky
“Peace is always beautiful.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Song at SunsetÂ
(excerpt)
by Walt Whitman
I sing to the last the equalities modern or old,
I sing the endless finales of things,
I say Nature continues, glory continues,
I praise with electric voice,
For I do not see one imperfection in the universe,
And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.Â
O setting sun! though the time has come,
I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
– Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
– Walt Whitman
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