Walt Whitman Quotes

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

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.'

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.

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

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