Town Concrete

Famous quotes containing the words town and/or concrete:

    He builds a big town with his mouth, but not even a fly’s nest with his hands.
    —Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)

    In his comprehensive delight in all experience Dickens resembles Walt Whitman, but he was innocent of that nebulous transcendentalism that blurred Whitman’s universe into vast misty panoramas and left him, for all his huge democratic vistas, unable to tell a story or paint a single concrete human being.
    Edgar Johnson (1912–1990)