Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. — Federico Garcia Lorca 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
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman. — Lewis Mumford 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
“Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman” — Jed McKenna 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
“I'll admit that I was surprised to see two decades of film journalism canonized in the same church as Lincoln, Thoreau, Emerson,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Walt Whitman, who worked as a nurse in the hospital wards, that the harrowing experience made one’s “little cares and difficulties” disappear… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and… — William Butler Yeats 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
“Annie Savoy: [narrating] Walt Whitman once said, "I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair… — Bull Durham Copy Share Image
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell 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
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
“One way of emphasizing the singularity of the recent past is [..] to observe that the total number of humans ever to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first thing I did on television was a PBS thing where I played a priest. It was a Walt Whitman or… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,… — Annie Dillard 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
“The whole imaginative effort of Walt Whitman was really an effort to absorb and animate these multitudinous modern repetitions; and Walt Whitman… — G.K. Chesterton 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
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a… — Jerry Saltz 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
“And among the prissiest. Gilder’s method of raising public standards of taste and morality required the production of bloodless pages. As custodian… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Language, be it remembered, is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the… — John Pollack Copy Share Image
The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Man in his upended street must know he is becoming a mere numerical item of convenience; on the way to being a… — Frank Lloyd Wright 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
We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the… — David Levithan 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
“Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop’d. I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than… — Stephen Harrod Buhner Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Be not dishearten’d—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, “Over the… — Robert Goolrick 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
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
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
I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“I get the urge to feel it, too, so when she takes her hand away, I turn her toward me and I… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
![“Annie Savoy: [narrating] Walt Whitman once said, "I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us." You could look it up.” quote by Bull Durham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60f/bull-durham-139134_baseball_annie-savoy-narrating-walt-whitman-once_2923084.jpg)
![“One way of emphasizing the singularity of the recent past is [..] to observe that the total number of humans ever to have lived is estimated at around (a bit less than) 100 billion. One of Walt Whitman's poems has a memorable image—thinking of all past people lined up in orderly columns behind…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8e6/robert-m-may-144210_biology_one-way-of-emphasizing-the-singularity-o_2256933.jpg)
![“I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d65/anne-waldman-4046_community_i-had-parents-who-were-attentive-to-what_388144.jpg)
