Quote by Patrick Kavanagh
““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 a writer who tried to bully his way to prophecy. Of Emerson at the time I had no opinions to offer. I found him out later to be a sugary humbug. His transcendental bunkum sickened me.””
![“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.” quote by Lisa Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a91/lisa-henry-8958_catchphrases_walt-whitman-would-never-get-in-the-way_1121107.jpg)
![“Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)” quote by Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c5e/patrick-kavanagh-14181_collections_publication-there-in-nimbus-was-to-prove_784703.jpg)
