1855 Quote by Walt Whitman

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

— Walt Whitman

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and…

— Walt Whitman

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

“The USA is not the ‘Greatest Nation On Earth’, but it is a beautiful country.”

— Steven Magee

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am…

— Joseph Brodsky

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

— Harold Bloom

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their…

— Aberjhani

“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of…

— Aberjhani

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off the ambitious,…

— Roland Merullo

“TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy,…

— Walt Whitman

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

— Joseph Brodsky