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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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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

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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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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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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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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 swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagg...more

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(I know, it's a poem but oh well).Why! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manha...more

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I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one th...more

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Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…

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

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What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

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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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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.