That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana. — Tim Blake Nelson 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
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities! — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to… — 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
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
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
“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 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
I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back! Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,… — 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
“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
“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
“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
What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Oh, America the Beautiful, where are our standards? How did Europeans, ancestral cultures to most of us, whose average crowded country would… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. To You WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“ He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was:… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Carpe Diem By Edna Stewart Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can't I? The words of Horace, his laconic phrase.… — Edna Stewart Copy Share Image
“What the Motorcycle Said Br-r-r-am-m-m, rackerty-am-m, OM, AM: All-r-r-room, r-r-ram, ala-bas-ter- Am, the world’s my oyster. I hate plastic, wear it black… — Mona Van Duyn 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
![“What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/286/edward-norton-2203_ambition_what-we-set-out-to-do-with-this-movie-le_2503986.jpg)
