Famous quotes containing the words whitman and/or poem:
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—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)