Famous quotes containing the words greek and/or writer:
“Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every writer “creates” his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)