Fire Whitman

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or whitman:

“The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from first to last, a boorish, awkward poseur.”
—Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910)