Astronomers Quote by Isaac Asimov

“The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry”

— Dermot McCabe

“Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as…

— 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

“What would Walt Whitman do?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

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

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If…

— Benjamin Franklin

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney

“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.”

— Matt Haig

“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles…

— Alysha Speer

“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

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the…

— Allen Tate