Quotes about Individuality

I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,   You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.

Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth, Each of us here as divinely as any is here.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; And your very flesh shall be a great poem…

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?

He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.

In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.

Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked; Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not, I will say what I have to say by itself, I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call, I will raise with it immortal reverberations through the States, I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.

Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack

while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself. 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, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.