...Whitman's philosophy and leads into many high-handed declarations in all of his earlier writings. " Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from. . . . This head more than chnrches, Bibles and all creeds. If I worship one thing more than another,...

...him. In spite, however, of his fakir-like gesticulations, his extravagance generally continues dull. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from ; The scent of these armpits, aroma finer than prayer ; This head more than churches,...

...him. In spite, however, of his Fakir-like gesticulations, his extravagance generally continues dull. " Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from ; The scent of those armpits, aroma finer than prayer; This head more than churches, Bibles,...

...and the second principle, which is a belief in the preciousness of filth. " Divine am I," he cries, " Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever...aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, Bibles, and all the creeds." He knows that he is "august." He does not care for anybody's opinion....

...believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from, The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles,...

...Whitman is our chief egotist, and man, facile ' ' princeps in his conceit surpasses belief. conceit. "Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch' d from ; The scent of these armpits, aroma finer than prayer ; This head more than churches,...

...believe in the flesh and the appetite. Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle, Divine am I inside and out; and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from. Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, Not an inch, nor a particle...

...believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. " Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from ; The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer ; This head more than churches,...

...flesh and the appetites ; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is ai miracle. " Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touoh'd from ; The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer ; This head more than churches,...

...him. In spite, however, of his Fakir-like gesticulations, his extravagance generally continues dull. "Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever...aroma finer than prayer; This head more than churches, Bibles, and all the creeds. If I worship oue thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own...