Whitman Quotes

45 quotes by 40 authors

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have… — Chris Christie
Ric Flair, the Slim Whitman of Pro-Wrestling. — Roddy Piper
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer
But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitmanâ€™s… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such… — Sister Nivedita
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an… — Damian Thompson
Iâ€™ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid. — Ben Lerner
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips — Oscar Wilde
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. — Diane Wakoski
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of… — Harold Bloom
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and… — Nancy Eimers
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
Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England,… — Oscar Wilde
Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New… — Alfred Kazin
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman. — Lewis Mumford
In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists… — Ishmael Reed
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but… — Isaac Asimov
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman. — Mary MacLane

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