America Quote by Anita Diament

“And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the course of…

— Henry Miller

“The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry”

— Dermot McCabe

“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…

— George Orwell

“I shouldn't be shocked to learn about Whitman. Should know by now not to trust anybody." "That's not a very Lovey thing to say."…

— Julie Cantrell

I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough…

— Allan Gurganus

The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American…

— Virginia Woolf

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so…

— John Burroughs

“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned an American…

— Anonymous

“What would Walt Whitman do?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as…

— Walt Whitman

“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.”

— Lisa Henry

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of…

— Anonymous