Leaves of Grass, 1855
	Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly fleshy and sensual . . . . eating drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no  more modest than immodest. Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns  at last to me, And whatever I do or say I also return.