Top Whitman Quotes
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
Diane Wakoski
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
David Lodge
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
Anita Diament
All Whitman Quotes
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Federico Garcia Lorca 
58% of people like this quote
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 
54% of people like this quote
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
Diane Wakoski 
53% of people like this quote
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
David Lodge 
49% of people like this quote
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
Anita Diament 
48% of people like this quote
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 
47% of people like this quote

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