Leaves of grass Quote by Amiri Baraka
“The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.”
![“You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b28/anne-waldman-4046_environment_you-really-felt-a-radical-shift-in-the-a_2555670.jpg)
![“[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify the feelings while it outrages the taste.” quote by Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/981/henry-james-417_bad-reviews_leaves-of-grass-is-monstrous-because-it_120303.jpg)
