when Whitman wrote, I sing the body electricI know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we can’t cheat death but we can make itwork so hardthat when it does takeusit will have known a victory just asperfect asours - Charles Bukowski
Casi no soy, pero mis versos ritmanla vida y su esplendor. Yo fui Walt Whitman. - Jorge Luis Borges
There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable. - Harold Bloom
America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her . Walt Whitman - Ingersoll