Approach Quote by Beaumont Newhall

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

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 still be…

— Wynton Marsalis

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

— David Lodge

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

— Adam McKay

If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure out how…

— Robert Hass

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

— Andrew Sullivan

Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or…

— Walt Whitman

Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is…

— Wynton Marsalis

When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book…

— Karel Appel