'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. — Robert Gottlieb 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman” — Jed McKenna 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
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer 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
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
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
“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
“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
“I exist as I am, that is enough" Song of Myself by Walt Whitman” — Penelope douglas 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
There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and… — Nancy Eimers 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
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry” — Dermot McCabe Copy Share Image
