Martí Sampler

Über Selected Writings des kubanischen Nationaldichters José Marti schreibt die Los Angeles Times am 21.7.02:

About Emerson, he wrote, „Marvelous old man, I lay my sheaf of green palm fronds and my silver sword at your feet!“ Of Coney Island: „Everything is out in the open: the noisy groups, the vast dining rooms, the peculiar courtship of the North Americans … the theater, the photographer, the bathhouse.“ On graduation at Vassar: „May the education of women become so common that she who possesses it is not marked out.“ The qualities of Whitman’s poetry: „sudden silences, vibrant tones, hymnlike élan, and Olympic intimacy.“