Walt Whitman Body Quotations

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred

Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

I sing the body electric.

Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.