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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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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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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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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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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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This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth emerging,...more

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re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great...more