Great Poem Quotes by Walt Whitman

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• The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates… — Jacob Bronowski
• Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul… — Walt Whitman
• The one great poem of New England is her Sunday. — Henry Ward Beecher
• This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,… — Walt Whitman
• Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse
• If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in… — Keith Green
• Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner
• I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us… — Bryan Procter
• The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written. — Wallace Stevens
• We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep… — Jacob Bronowski
• And your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman
• Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy,… — Walt Whitman

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