Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“A gust of wind set the leaves of grass to dancing and celebrated the grass's song before it died.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had a huge advantage with Edward Norton because he's directed a movie before, so one thing he appreciates is how hard… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any… — Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Copy Share Image
“I would think if you were going to quote Whitman you'd go for something not taken from Leaves Of Grass. Especially if… — Leah Clifford Copy Share Image
“And I can’t help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic. We… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I know I am deathless We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
