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
“Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman” — Jed McKenna 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
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. — Federico Garcia Lorca 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
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
“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.” — Matt Haig 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“"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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“... 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
“Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your… — Allen Ginsberg 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
“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
“The last thing I want to hear from a crotch, I yell, is Walt Whitman!” — Ron Whipple Copy Share Image
“I exist as I am, that is enough" Song of Myself by Walt Whitman” — Penelope douglas Copy Share Image
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
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