More From Walt Whitman
- "I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."
- "Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
- "I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game."
More In Poetry
- "There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."― Edward Young
- "I’m from a small town so, like, everyone’s married with children or about to have children. So it’s a little hard when you go home and people are like – and that’s why people think I’m gay – because they’re like ‘Why aren’t you married?’ And I’m like, ‘it doesn’t happen for everyone right off the bat.’"― Kelly Clarkson
- "I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare’s sonnets."― Diane Wakoski