“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
“"What Zolberg calls the 'Melville principle' is an excellent expression of the fundamental right to free movement... for one surely needs to… — Anouar Majid Copy Share Image
“But since we’re on the topic of identity and narrative voice - here’s an interesting conundrum. You may know that The Correspondence… — Barbara Browning 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
“Get comfortable with ambiguity. It’s not all laid out for you at once because it wasn’t just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes.… — Robert Chazz Chute 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
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
I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society… — George Santayana 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
I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle.… — Damian Thompson Copy Share Image
If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
“I bring you the dance. I bring you the idea that is going to revolutionise our entire epoch. Where have I discovered… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it amazing, amazing, amazing that something so specific can be so resonant? These are the filaments, filaments, filaments from that Walt… — Ze Frank 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
“In the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what… — Elizabeth von Arnim 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
Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
