Famous quotes containing the words whitman and/or poem:
“I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Stir of time, the sequence
returning upon itself, branching
a new way. To suffer, pains, hope.
The attention
lives in it as a poem lives or a song
going under the skin of memory.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)