Whitman/people

Famous quotes containing the words whitman and/or people:

“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel’d universe.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)