Confession Quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

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

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

— Walt Whitman

“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

“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

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

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

— Lisa Henry

“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

“Get comfortable with ambiguity. It’s not all laid out for you at once because it wasn’t just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes. We’re all…

— Robert Chazz Chute

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew…

— Anonymous

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

“What would Walt Whitman do?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg