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
One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world. — Randall Jarrell 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
I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“I shouldn't be shocked to learn about Whitman. Should know by now not to trust anybody." "That's not a very Lovey thing… — Julie Cantrell 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
Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be… — Walt Whitman 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
Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the… — Anonymous 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
“And I can’t help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic. We… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska 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
“Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric” I know what he meant I know what he wanted: to be completely alive… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,… — H. P. Lovecraft 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
“One marker, which I would read a bit later on, tells the familiar story of Narcissa Whitman, "trail-blazer and martyred missionary," who… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel 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
“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
“I saw thee once - only once - years ago: I must not say how many - but not many. It was… — Edgar Allen Poe Copy Share Image
“ He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was:… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned… — Anonymous 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
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. — Diane Wakoski 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
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