“My Poems, when complete, should be A Unity,” undated, Walt Whitman Papers, Volume 126.

“My Poems, when complete, should be A Unity,” undated, Walt Whitman Papers, Volume 126.

This writing fragment paired with a newspaper clipping about the unity of the Bible. Translation:
My Poems, when complete, should be A Unity, in the same sense that the earth is, or that the human body (senses, soul, head, trunk, feet, blood, viscera, man-root, eyes, hair,) or that a perfect musical composition is-
Great Constituent Two, viz:
Elements of my Materialism
Poetry. Spirituality
The intellect, the esthetic, is what is to be the medium of these and to beautify,

govern and make serviceable these.