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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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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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Song of MyselfI have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There ...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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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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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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What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

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WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,Power enjoying, elbows stretc...more

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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

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O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever repr...more

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Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!

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The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.