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

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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 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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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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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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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

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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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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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The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the ...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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Come, said my SoulSuch verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after death invisibly return,Or, long, long hence, in other sph...more