End of the world Quote by Randall Jarrell

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so…

— John Burroughs

“What would Walt Whitman do?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of…

— Anonymous

“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

There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.

— Mary Szybist

“I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

— Robert Graves

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

— Edward Abbey

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting.…

— Anne Waldman

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Be not dishearten’d—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, “Over the Carnage Rose…

— Robert Goolrick