Walt Whitman — "If I had cut sex out I might just as well have cut everything out. The bulk of t…"

If I had cut sex out I might just as well have cut everything out. The bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were those lines omitted. The full scheme would no longer exist—it would have been violated in its most sensitive spot.
Walt Whitman — Walt Whitman Modern · Leaves of Grass

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Defense of 'Leaves of Grass' against censorship

Date: c. 1880s

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