Unlimited Quote Collections
Organize your favorite quotes without limits. Create themed collections for every occasion with Premium.
...re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great… - Walt Whitman
" "...re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem...
English
Collect this quote
About Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American journalist and poet, most famous for his lifelong work on his book Leaves of Grass.
Biography information from Wikiquote
Also Known As
Birth Name:
Walter Whitman
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Shorter versions of this quote
Unlimited Quote Collections
Organize your favorite quotes without limits. Create themed collections for every occasion with Premium.
Additional quotes by Walt Whitman
Limited Time Offer
Premium members can get their quote collection automatically imported into their Quotewise collections.
Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must justify me. I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future, I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
Loading...