Walt Whitman Quote Source & Citation:

I believe in the perfectibility of human nature. I believe that man is an animal that can be perfected.

— Walt Whitman Modern · Leaves of Grass

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"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long."

"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

"I am for those who believe in loose delights, The woman that arouses a man, the man that arouses a woman."

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

"I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul."

This is a misattribution. While Whitman was optimistic, this exact phrasing is not directly attributable and contrasts with Poe's quote.

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