Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
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Response to the questionnaire "Whiter the American Writer?" in Modern Quarterly, Summer 1932John Dos Passos
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I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of trying to write in the Whitman manner.
Walt Whitman
In the whole period, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Edwin Arlington Robinson and Robert Frost, the greatest American poet is Stuart Merrill.
Stuart Merrill
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lip.
Oscar Wilde
Whitman, the one man breaking a way ahead. Whitman, the one pioneer. And only Whitman. No English pioneers, no French. . . The same in America. . . Whitman, like a strange, modern, American Moses.
Moses
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.
Walt Whitman
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