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)
“Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)