WHITMAN, WALT

1. We go to Whitman for his attitude toward life and the universe; we go to stimulate and fortify our souls; in short for his cosmic philosophy incarnated in a man.—JOHN BURROUGHS, The Last Harvest
   

2. W. W. is the Christ of the modern world—he alone redeems it, justifies it, shows it divine.—JOHN BURROUGHS, The Last Harvest
   

3. As Caesar Augustus found a Rome of brick and left it a Rome of marble, so Walt Whitman found the everyday world around us a world of familiar substance and left it a world aureoled in mystery.—B. DE CASSERES, Philistine
   

4. The American poet Whitman
   Did little to assist the razor industry,
   But he erected a plausible philosophy
   Of indolence,
   Which, without soft concealments,
   He called Loafing. . . .
   He was deficient in humour,
   But he had a good time.—CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, A Happy Life
   

5. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself
   

6. No one will ever get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance.—WALT WHITMAN, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
   

7. Democracy's divine protagonist.—F. H. WILLIAMS, Walt Whitman