Alive Quote by Charles Bukowski

“I sing the body electric. I gasp the body organic. I miss the body remembered.”

— Joseph Fink

“By the way, Reb, about the singing. What gives? Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Billie Holiday sang the blues. You sang…everything. You could…

— Mitch Albom

“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

“In the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what that lonely…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“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

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the…

— N.H. Kleinbaum

“You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing.”

— Marie Luise Kaschnitz

“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Before love, before loss, before we ever yearn to be something we are not, we are bodies breathing in space—-“turbulent, fleshy, sensual,” Walt Whitman…

— Amy Ellis Nutt

“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.”

— Mary Stewart

“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul itself!”

— Alok Mishra

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway