Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile.”
- Source
- Song of Myself
- Date
- 1882
Meaning of “Welcome is every organ and attribute of me,…”
Whitman rejects the division of the person into acceptable and shameful fragments, extending his democratic imagination to the body and to ordinary human embodiment.
Where does it come from?
Song of Myself, 1882 Leaves of Grass text on Wikisource; the source continues “and none shall be less familiar than the rest.”
