“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.”
— Walt Whitman
“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”
— Walt Whitman
“Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations — many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”
— Walt Whitman
“Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.”
— Walt Whitman
“I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”
— Walt Whitman