Trust no one Quote by Julie Cantrell

“What would Walt Whitman do?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“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

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

— Ron Whipple

“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

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

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“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

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

— Lisa Henry

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

— Walt Whitman

“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

“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.”

— Melody Lee

But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

— Anita Diament