The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time. — John Green Copy Share Image
“I exist as I am, that is enough" Song of Myself by Walt Whitman” — Penelope douglas 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
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,… The trouble is, Whitman is talking through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for… — Ambrose Bierce 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
“Before love, before loss, before we ever yearn to be something we are not, we are bodies breathing in space—-“turbulent, fleshy, sensual,”… — Amy Ellis Nutt Copy Share Image
'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
“By the way, Reb, about the singing. What gives? Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Billie Holiday sang the blues. You sang…everything.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I went through a very hairy period. I had a movie where I was going to play Walt Whitman that fell through.… — Jeff Bridges 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
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
What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Our inner lives must be lent a structure and our best thoughts reinforced to counter the continuous pull of distraction and disintegration.… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle.… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman's poem, This Is What You Shall Do is another one that helps me burn bgithrer This is what you shall… — Adam Copy Share Image
“Something else gets under your skin, keeps you working days and nights at the sacrifice of your sleeping and eating and attention… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde 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
These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The last thing I want to hear from a crotch, I yell, is Walt Whitman!” — Ron Whipple Copy Share Image
“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.” — Matt Haig 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
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer Copy Share Image
I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
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