Beard Quote by Federico Garcia Lorca

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

— Walt Whitman

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting.…

— Anne Waldman

“And when all the wars are done,’ I said, ‘a butterfly will still be beautiful.”

— Ruskin Bond

“I am a butterfly poet birthed from pain flying with the freedom of my verses.”

— Susie Clevenger

“The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth.”

— Eileen Granfors

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of…

— Anonymous

“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

“You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.”

— Melody Lee

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

— Ron Whipple