Catchphrases Quote by Lisa Henry

“What would Walt Whitman do?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

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

— Ron Whipple

“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

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

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

— Walt Whitman

“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

“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

“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, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

— David Lodge

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

— Anita Diament

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

— Gerard Manley Hopkins