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Whitman Quotes

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
Diane Wakoski

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
Mary MacLane

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
Ella R. Bloor

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.
Ella R. Bloor

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
Anna Quindlen

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

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

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