Famous quotes containing the words walt, fleming and/or series:
“In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded.... He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“I could not get a rhyme for roman
And was obliged to call him woman.”
—Marjory Fleming (1803–1811)
“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)