WALT WHITMAN QUOTES
LANGUAGE ARTS 11- Miss Thompson
“There was a man, Walt Whitman, who lived in the nineteenth century, in
America, who began to define his own person, who began to tell his own
secrets, who outlined his own body, and made an outline of his own mind, so
other people could see it.” – Allen Ginsberg, 1981
“Whitman should be kicked from all decent society as below the level of a
brute.” – The Intelligencer, 1855
“Walt Whitman…the greatest of our poets…the American bard, our Homer and
our Milton, broke new road for the New World.” – Harold Bloom, 2005
"This outrageous figure," said Whitman biographer Sam Abrams in 1993,
"radiating attitude, dressed like a menial laborer in flagrant violation of what
all the world knew a poet should look like, served as a signature of a special
kind. The portrait goes beyond the romantic insistence on the divine poet; this
is the divine poet who takes out the trash."