The Poetry Corner

Tests

By Walt Whitman

All submit to them, where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis, in the Soul; Not traditions not the outer authorities are the judges they are the judges of outer authorities, and of all traditions; They corroborate as they go, only whatever corroborates themselves, and touches themselves; For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near, without one exception.