"If the United States haven't grown poets,..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“I know perfectly well my own egotism.”

“The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.”

“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.”

“I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.”

“The finest poetry was first experience.”

“Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.”

“I think that America has to stand with democracy.”

“Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.”

“The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.”