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Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.