“and I am sure that food is much more generally entertaining than scenery. Do you give in, as Walt Whitman would say,… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
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
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
“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta… — Roberto Bolaño 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
“Be composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“... in fact any good mind properly taught can think like Euclid and like Walt Whitman. The Renaissance, as we saw, was… — Jacques Barzun 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
“The funeral was a vast, elaborate affair, befitting a monarch or head of state, in marked contrast to the essential simplicity of… — Ron Chernow 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
“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
“"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
“Isabel never despaired, even though I think she knew everything that was going to happen, right from the beginning. There was a… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
“Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead… — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know… — Bill Bradley 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
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
“The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry” — Dermot McCabe Copy Share Image
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. — Federico Garcia Lorca 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
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he… — Gerard Manley Hopkins 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
“The morning grass was damp and cool with dew. My yellow rain slicker must have looked sharp contrasted against the bright green… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“English majors want the joy of seeing the world through the eyes of people who—let us admit it—are more sensitive, more articulate,… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
