Famous quotes containing the words whitman and/or show:
“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 (1819–1892)
“In this Journal, my pen is a delicate needle point, tracing out a graph of temperament so as to show its daily fluctuations: grave and gay, up and down, lamentation and revelry, self-love and self-disgust. You get here all my thoughts and opinions, always irresponsible and often contradictory or mutually exclusive, all my moods and vapours, all the varying reactions to environment of this jelly which is I.”
—W.N.P. Barbellion (1889–1919)