I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.