There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) US poet
"""Leaves of Grass,"" Preface, 1855."
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) US poet
"""Song of Myself,"" sct. 51, in ""Leaves of Grass,"" 1855."
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"INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both -- as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man." Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) US "journalist, short-story writer"
"The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."
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Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. David Lodge (1935 - ____) 0 0
"""Changing Places,"" Ch. 5."
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"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed." Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) US poet
"""Reversals."""
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"In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded. . . . He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance." Oscar Wilde (1856 - 1900) Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist"
"Review of Whitman, November Boughs, in Pall Mall Gazette (London, 25 Jan. 1889)."
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"So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated." John O\'Hara (1905 - 1970) US "novelist, short-story writer"
"Replying to criticism, ""Carte Blanche,"" Fall 1965."
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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) US poet
"""Leaves of Grass,"" Preface, 1855."
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"To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) US poet
"""Notes Left Over,"" ""Ventures on an Old Theme,"" 1881."
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