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

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

Other quotes by Walt Whitman

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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Perspective
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In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. – Walt Whitman

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Earth
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Poetry

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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Poetry

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. Id like to publish it someday. – Aaron Neville

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Poetry

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. – Robert Frost

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Poetry

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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. – James Payn

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Education

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour. – William Blake

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Imagination

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. – Gwyneth Paltrow

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Friendship

That best academy, a mother’s knee. – James Russell Lowell

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