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Quotation from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes”
Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, §51
The speaker accepts contradiction as part of the capacious self imagined by the poem.
Citation: "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes" — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, §51. (id leaves-of-grass-q2)
Portrait: Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox, George Collins Cox / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
