I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
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.
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.