“Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.”
David Lodge
“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.”
Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
“Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.”
Federico Garcia Lorca
“The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.”
Isadora Duncan
“My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.”
Steve Forbert
“I would definitely think we're back in a moment like Whitman was in, in the early 19th century, in which self-publishing is a very real thing, but it's increasingly requiring a level of skill that not everybody can attain.”
Matt Cohen
