...largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. 21 I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, \ The pleasures of heaven are with me and...

...cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. My foothold is tenoned and mortised in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the...

...I exist as I am — that is enough ; If no other in the world be aware, I sit content ; And if each and all be aware, I sit content. One world is aware,...call dissolution ; And I know the amplitude of time. This was his program; the performance in the first experimental edition was not always up to it. One...

...carpenter's compass, I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. This is perhaps rather rhetoric than poetry. But sincere rhetoric is always trembling on the edge of...

...know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night • •••••• My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. This is perhaps rather rhetoric_than poetry. But sincere rhetoric is always trembling on the~~edge...

...apologize. I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire * is equally...

...determinists, and one of the greatest of all transmuters of determinism: My foot is tenoned and mortised in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me; Now on this spot I stand with my...

...it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait, o My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, 420 I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time, o 21 I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and...

...years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. My foothold is tenon "d and mortis'd in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. —Walt Whitman Song Of Myself Mind invented contradictions, invented names; it called some things...

...enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I...call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. (LG, 47-48) Like Olson, Whitman reinstates the body to a central position, acknowledging and honoring...