...Papers from Prison (19 5 3) 12 Miracles do not happen. Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma (1883) 13 Seeing, hearing, feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself (1855) H Miracles appeal only to the understanding of...

...women Or apart from them, the spread of my own body, or any part of it, No more modest than immodest Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy Whatever I touch or am touch 'd from, The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer, The head more than churches, bibles...

...and lusts, voices veiled, and I remove the veil. Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigured. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from; The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer, This head is more than churches...

...tradition, had the same estimate of the moral and spiritual worth of man: "I exist as I am: that is enough. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch and am touched from." The evolutionary optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, and the sentimentalisation...

...Not an inch nor a particle is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest. ("Song of Myself") Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever...head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. (Ibid.) I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious. (Ibid.) Whitman's crucial application...

...delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart, Copulation is no more rank to me than death is. I believe in the flesh and the appetites. Seeing,...miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. ("Song of Myself," section 24) In Whitman's view the individual self, his self, and the self of others...

...first on his own physical form. He defiantly states that his body both "inside and out" is "divine": "Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from" (524). He continues his assault on the religious patriarchy as he emphasizes the sensual...

...on God." Whitman expressed a similar sentiment a year later in his first edition of Leaves of Grass: "Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from." "In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass." But whereas...

...sondern der demokratischen Welt - „the spread of my own body" (v. 527) - als solcher: Divine I am inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from, H This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. (w. 524-526) Die Autosakralisierung erreicht...

...regardless of what's going on outside.. —Robert Stuberg kt -Jean de La Bruyère -:-'. -»-. ngí hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. —Walt Whitman caven 1** ¡s under our fee f t eis ж(( Qj over our heads. —Henry David Thoreau...