Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

“—Whitman’s full-blooded, copious, rank, masculine style must always make him one of the world’s great originals — a perennial fountain of health & strength, moral as well as physical. He has the amplitude of Earth itself, and can no more be thought away, than a mountain can. He often indeed reminds one of a great quarry on a mountainside — the great shafts of sunlight and the shadows, the primitive face of the rock itself, the power & daring of the men at work upon it, the tumbled blocks and masses, materials for endless buildings, & the beautiful weed or flower on inaccessible ledges — a picture most artistic in its very incoherence & formlessness—"