Tag - Whitman Quotes

Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Whitman Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Whitman Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Meg Whitman

I answer that question by saying: ‘Why Meg Whitman’ which is: I’m not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

– Meg Whitman

Mary MacLane

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

– Mary MacLane

Marilynne Robinson

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

– Marilynne Robinson

Mae Whitman

I really love poetry. I’m a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

– Mae Whitman

Lela Loren

Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated the spring before I started, so we didn’t know each other.

– Lela Loren

Langston Hughes

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

– Langston Hughes

Kelsey Grammer

The first thing I did on television was a PBS thing where I played a priest. It was a Walt Whitman or Carl Sandburg story – I can’t quite remember – but I was a turn-of-the-20th-century priest kind of guy. Never saw it; don’t know if I was any good or not.

– Kelsey Grammer

Jon Hamm

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character – that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

– Jon Hamm

Jesse Ball

As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust, Kafka. Their best works: ‘Leaves of Grass – 1855;’ ‘Duino Elegies;’ ‘The Captive & The Fugitive;’ ‘The Castle.’

– Jesse Ball

Jerry Saltz

It’s art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn’t about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – ‘contain multitudes.’

– Jerry Saltz

James Adomian

Eventually, all of our impressions will be dead. That’s one of my favorite things about Paul F. Tompkins’ ‘Dead Authors’ podcast is to be able to do impressions of people you’ve never otherwise think to do or get to do. I did Walt Whitman on there, and that was really fun.

– James Adomian

Garth Risk Hallberg

I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived – you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

– Garth Risk Hallberg

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