Whitman Quotes

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
Jerry Saltz

Art, Put, Against

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

Beauty, Poetry, Joy

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.
Chris Christie

Time, Government, America

Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
Hal Sparks

Different, Find, Attention

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

Read, Line, Walt

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
Meg Whitman

Business, Saying, Career

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

Beautiful, Moment, Full

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

American, Poets, Celebrate

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

Good, Everything, America

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

Great, Mind, Heart

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

Beauty, Nature, Human

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

Love, Nature, Great

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

End, Words, Before

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