The Greatest Living Author, Karl Shapiro, 1960 - xxix.
Like Nietzsche, like Lawrence, his word somehow spreads abroad and somehow cleanses the atmosphere of the mind of its age-old detritus of tradition, its habits of despair, its hates.
The Greatest Living Author, Karl Shapiro, 1960 - xxiii.
Whitman also believed in nonrecognition of death. His view of death as part of life is one of the many reasons for his unpopularity in America, where death is considered a crime against society.