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If anything is sacred the human body is sacred. — Walt Whitman

Poem

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass · 1855
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Body as a templeHuman body
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Time
1855
Person
Walt Whitman
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Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions. Library of America, 2011, sect. 8.
Original citation
Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Leaves of Grass. Self-published, 1855, sect. 8.

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