Lines by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
American poet · 1819–1892
Walt Whitman spent his life expanding one book, Leaves of Grass, through nine editions. His long free-verse lines celebrate ordinary people, bodies and the democratic crowd.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Song of Myself, in Leaves of Grass, section 51