Freedom Quote by Robert Goolrick

“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world. Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.”

— Melody Lee

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“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

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

— Robert Gottlieb

“Poetry, is a life long war waged against ineffable beauty.”

— Atticus Poetry

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

“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

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

— Walt Whitman

“While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.”

— James Cambias

“Remove the sentiment of love and discover how dangerously fragile are rendered one’s ties to the familiar world. How seductive the possibility of utter…

— Mark Frost

“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.”

— Alfred Jarry