Famous quotes containing the words classic and/or period:
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“His singing carried me back to the period of the discovery of America ... when Europeans first encountered the simple faith of the Indian. There was, indeed, a beautiful simplicity about it; nothing of the dark and savage, only the mild and infantile. The sentiments of humility and reverence chiefly were expressed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)