Whitman quotes

En vano te hemos prodigado el oce  ano, En vano el sol, que vieron los maravillados ojos de Whitman; Has gastado los an‹  os y te has gastado, Y todav|a no has escrito el poema. We have lavished the ocean on you in vain, In vain the sun that was seen by Whitman's astounded eyes; You have spent your years and you have spent yourself, But you haven't written the poem yet.

-Jorge Luis Borges
  El otro, el mismo,'Mateo XX V, 30' ('Matthew 25:30').

   Si hay poes|a en nuestra Ame  rica, ella esta   en las cosas viejas: en Palenke y Uatla  n, en el indio legendario y el inca sensual y fino y en el gran Moctezuma de la silla de oro. Lo dema  s es tuyo, demo  crataWaltWhitman. If there is poetry in our America, it is in ancient items: in Palenke and Uatla  n, in the legendary Indian and in the sensuous and elegant Inca and the great Moctezuma. The rest is yours, democratic Walt Whitman.

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  Prosas profanas,'Palabras liminares'.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Quoted in Denis Donoghue England, Their England (1988).

Where do you get your taste in authorsThat damned library of yours! (He indicates the small bookcase at rear.) Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Ibsen! Atheists, fools, and madmen! And your poets! This Dowson, and this Baudelaire, and Swinburne and O'Neill Oscar Wilde, and Whitman and Poe! Whoremongers and degenerates! Pah! When I've three good sets of Shakespeare there (he nods at the large bookcase) you could read.

- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
^41  Tyrone. Long Day's Journey Into Night, act 4 (published 1956).

I make a pact with you,Walt Whitman I have detested you long enough. I come to you as a grown child Who has had a pig-headed father I am old enough not to make friends.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  Lustra,'A Pact'.