“The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry” — Dermot McCabe 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
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I would think if you were going to quote Whitman you'd go for something not taken from Leaves Of Grass. Especially if… — Leah Clifford Copy Share Image
I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens… — Benmont Tench 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
“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
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us?… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“No you don't", she answers, and she is right. She can see it in my face- I understand now that I can't… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure… — Robert Hass 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
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
“In the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde 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
“And among the prissiest. Gilder’s method of raising public standards of taste and morality required the production of bloodless pages. As custodian… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new,… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“All this was only, in my father's estimation, a means; the end was the Earthly Paradise, the translation of William Morris's 'News… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us… — Anonymous 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 think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money… — Wynton Marsalis 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
The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
