“All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Sure as Life holds all parts together, Death holds all parts together.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
“The poet is individual—he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And into the great empty quarter of America I went. Like a bottle of malt liquor or a boy’s asshole, America is.… — Trebor Healey Copy Share Image
“You can never know where I am or what I am, But I am good company to you nonetheless, And really do… — Henry N. Beard Copy Share Image
“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“I situate myself, and seat myself, And where you recline I shall recline, For every armchair belonging to you as good as… — Henry N. Beard Copy Share Image
“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The noisy jay swoops by and reviles me, he complains of my meow and my malingering. I too am not a bit… — Henry N. Beard Copy Share Image
“No you don't", she answers, and she is right. She can see it in my face- I understand now that I can't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Behold the day-break! I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face, I stir you with muscular paw-prods,… — Henry N. Beard Copy Share Image
“Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
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