| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38235 |
| QUOTATION: | The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950), U.S. poet, biographer, novelist. Whitman, Scribner (1937). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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