Bible Quote by Franklin J. Meine

“I would think if you were going to quote Whitman you'd go for something not taken from Leaves Of Grass. Especially if you're going…

— Leah Clifford

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

“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

“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

“Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive…

— William Carlos Williams

“There’s something obscene in this love of the past which ends in breadlines and dugouts. Something obscene about this spiritual racket which permits an…

— Henry Miller

“My poem must expurgate my manhood unveil the animality of the best of my being, reveal both the monster behind the friendly smile and…

— Eddy Toussaint

“Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. To You WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear these…

— Walt Whitman

“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She overwhelms man…

— Victor Hugo

“Poetry is the image of man and nature”

— Wordsworth William

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so…

— John Burroughs

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville