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Walt Whitman Quotes

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

Topics

Great Must Poets Audiences

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Heart Willing Feather Heel Adds

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

Writing Start Think Short Learn Way

I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

I Am Think Comfort Want Kind Human

Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.

Children Me Growing Up Growing Now

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

Man Stupid Artist Desire Will Right

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Rudyard Kipling

City Desire Chicago Never Real See

I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

Business Hobby Boring Actually Bloke

If just the presence of Tidal causes other companies to have better pay structure or to pay more attention to it moving forward, then we've been successful in one way. So we don't really view them as competitors. As the tide rises, all the boats rise.

Moving Forward Moving Forward Better

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Art People Understand Involved Found

There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate.

Friend Champion Will Never Teammate

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

Christopher Guest

People Doing You Back Go Sailing

The fact that doctors tend to treat people as individuals, guided by the need to ensure patient confidentiality, can reinforce this pattern of seeing the changes and challenges aging brings on through our heads and our bodies, rather than as a shared experience.

Experience Aging People Treat Seeing

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