“The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.” MenWalksFeetCenturyGreatnessMarkGreat MenOver It Author:Stephen Leacock
“I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.” ThinkingWorldDifferentWholeFatherCenturyMarkAbsolutesFortuneWaveBelovedShoreHitting20th CenturyOutlookTranslationsGood FortuneGreat AmericanSprungAmerican WriterSprung Up Author:Wislawa Szymborska