I remembered today to look for the English original of the one (German) Walt Whitman snippet I've had quoted in my poetry journal for a long time, and I found it in the Project Gutenberg. It's from Leaves of Grass, unsurprisingly:
I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own
funeral drest in his shroud.
Can I confess I don't like Whitman much? His poetry is much too prosaic for my taste, and includes too many lists. And I like even the above bit much better in German.