(16 quotes found)
“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.”
“The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.”
Isadora Duncan
“Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.”
Federico Garcia Lorca
“My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.”
Steve Forbert
“All the credit goes to Whitman. It looks like we came out a little flat and never recovered. We have a big game on Saturday against Commack, so we have to regroup.”
George Franck
“Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.”
David Lodge
“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
“We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.”
Robert Owens
