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

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? – Walt Whitman

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great
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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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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman

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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Every single soul is a poem. – Michael Franti

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Poetry

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. – David Hunt

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Poetry

They need to learn poetry. They dont need to learn about poetry. They dont need to be told how to interpret poetry. They dont need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. – Adrienne Rich

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Poetry

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