Quote by Walt Whitman
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. - Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. – Walt Whitman

Other quotes by Walt Whitman

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. – Walt Whitman

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I dont believe I deserved my friends. – Walt Whitman

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. – Martha Graham

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I was an OK boxer, I wasnt great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours. – Liam Neeson

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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. – Thomas Huxley

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. – Karl Lagerfeld

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding

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Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. – Joseph Henry

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Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK. – Emma Roberts

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