Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press 447 Copy quote

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.278, NYU Press I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.238, NYU Press Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.225, NYU Press To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is …

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.465, Simon and Schuster I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.115, NYU Press Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.417, Melville House Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.87, University of Iowa Press A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation