Beauty Quote by Anonymous

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew…

— Anonymous

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in…

— Oscar Wilde

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

“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

More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests…

— John Burroughs

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

— Leigh Hunt

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He…

— Oscar Wilde

“The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.”

— Wendy Higgins

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Dermot McCabe

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was…

— Lucy Larcom