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
Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can… — Wynton Marsalis 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
“According to Padilla, remembered Amalfitano, all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual. Poetry, on… — Roberto Bolaño 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 (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
My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene… — Langston Hughes 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
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
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
“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
“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.” — Matt Haig 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
“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
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
“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
I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was… — Allan Gurganus 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
So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman… — John O'Hara 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
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 is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time. — John Green 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
“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
But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
