Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.
It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.
Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is an inheritance, and when we squander that inheritance we act outside. We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .
Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.
I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.
The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.
