Whitman Quotes

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

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.

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.'

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

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.