Famous quotes containing the words whitman and/or poem:
“By the bivouac’s fitful flame,
A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)