A Quote by Robert Hass
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.
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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
I dubbed for the first time in 'Ko Ko' and I found it good as I finished it in three days.
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms - Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background. Ko Un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to the point, but often intricate in both wit and meaning. Ko Un has now traveled worldwide and is not only a major spokesman for all Korean culture, but a voice for Planet Earth Watershed as well.
Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.
America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.
Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.
No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
When people come to KO me, that's when I catch them off-guard and get the KO myself.
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