Whitman Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“We insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder…

— George Eliot

“It was the day that I said, “do whatever it takes to keep me alive.” With the nurse’s words changing everything and giving me…

— Maryam Monika Saliu

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…

— Sylvia Plath

“The days shuffled by like bland schoolgirls. I didn’t notice their individual faces, only their basic uniform: day and night, day and night. I…

— Marisha Pessl

“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

— Michelle Geaney

“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

“That was when I still had a mother who taught me to read and write; who handled books with care, saying they were marvels…

— Agustina Bazterrica

“Mother prescribing her books like medicines. A good dose of Whitman would set me straight, like castor oil. But at least she was thinking…

— Janet Fitch

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“What would Walt Whitman do?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.”

— Rebecca Wells