Fire Whitman

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or whitman:

“The fire I praise was once perduring flame
Till it snuffs with our generation out;
No matter, it’s all one, it’s but a name
Not as late honeysuckle half so stout....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)