• Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Blog

Walt Whitman Quotes

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Source:Notes Left Over (1888), Emerson's Books, (the Shadows of Them); Complete Prose Works (David Mckay, ed. 1897), Page 320
Find more on

Themes

ArtistManner

Related Quotes

  • To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
  • The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years...
  • Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Related Authors

Ralph Waldo EmersonEmily DickinsonRobert FrostT. S. EliotAlfred TennysonAnaïs NinHenry David ThoreauOscar WildeWilliam BlakeErnest Hemingway
Walt Whitman Quotes
  • Name: Walt Whitman
  • Profession: Poet, Essayist, Journalist
  • Born: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
  • More on:

Top Authors

  • William Shakespeare
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Agatha Christie
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • George Eliot
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Stephen King
  • About Us
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact
© 2013-2026 MagicalQuote
  • Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Blog