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Walt. Whitman: Interview with the Author of "Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 5 June 1880
  • Creator(s): J. L. Payne
Text:

Ruskin, however, has recorded himself as my friend."

a log and fired away without listening to any captain's orders.

I stopped working, and from that time my ruin commenced."

They offend my democracy, however.

"I enjoyed it well," was the reply, "and always keep my hand in.

In the Matter of Ages

  • Date: 28 January 1880
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Finally he hitched a little closer and leaned forward to look in my face.

But he nodded, and grinned and hitched again, bringing his face close to my ear, then in a voice husky

he finally yelled right in my ear.

Walt Whitman: A Chat With the "Good Gray Poet"

  • Date: 5 June 1880
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

"Yes," he said, "this is my first visit, properly speaking, to Canada, although I was at Niagara Falls

comradeship—friendship is the good old word—the love of my fellow-men.

As to the form of my poetry, I have rejected the rhymed and blank verse.

everything of the kind from my books."

I said, 'Perhaps not, my dear, in the way you mean, and yet maybe it is the same thing.'"

Walt Whitman: The Poet Chats on the Haps and Mishaps of Life

  • Date: 3 March 1880
  • Creator(s): Issac R. Pennypacker
Text:

the comradeship—friendship is the good old word—the love of my fellow-men.

As to the form of my poetry I have rejected the rhymed and blank verse.

everything of the kind from my books."

I said, "Perhaps not, my dear, in the way you mean, and yet, maybe, it is the same thing."

He said: "It is my chief reliance." He talked of death, and said he did not fear it.

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