Knows Quote by Lewis Mumford

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of…

— Beaumont Newhall

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

— Lisa Henry

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

— Andrew Sullivan

Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded…He…

— Oscar Wilde

“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned an American…

— Anonymous

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

Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is…

— Wynton Marsalis

When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book…

— Karel Appel

The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American…

— Virginia Woolf

Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never…

— Wynton Marsalis

“And among the prissiest. Gilder’s method of raising public standards of taste and morality required the production of bloodless pages. As custodian of genteel…

— Mike Wallace

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

— Ron Whipple

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

If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure out how…

— Robert Hass