Famous quotes containing the words whitman and/or poem:
“O magnet-south! O glistening, perfumed South! my South!
O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear
to me!”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)