Famous quotes containing the words whitman and/or poem:
“Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)