Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch’d from.”
- Source
- Song of Myself
- Date
- 1882
Meaning of “Divine am I inside and out, and I…”
Whitman radicalizes self-acceptance by describing the whole person as sacred, dissolving the boundary between an allegedly worthy interior and an unworthy physical exterior.
Where does it come from?
Song of Myself, 1882 text; the line belongs to Whitman’s intentionally expansive, bodily-spiritual poetic voice and should be read as poetry rather than literal theological doctrine.
