Quotes Tagged With :whitman

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women....

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and....

I situate myself, and seat myself,And where you recline I shall recline,For every armchair belonging....

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their....

when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely....

One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word....

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

You grow. You are large. You are a 19th century poem.All of America is inside you,a catalogue of lives....

I saw thee once - only once - years ago:I must not say how many - but not many.It was a July midnight;....