Company Quote by David Lodge

I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

— Walt Whitman

“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.”

— Lisa Henry

“The last thing I want to hear from a crotch, I yell, is Walt Whitman!”

— Ron Whipple

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

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

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

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“Be composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,…

— Walt Whitman

I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough…

— Allan Gurganus

“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“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

“What would Walt Whitman do?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins