"Song of Myself" Quotes

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.

I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself.

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise.

I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs.

I resist any thing better than my own diversity.

I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.