Grooks III

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"It [Grooks I] is the most astounding little book I've seen in years; in some ways the most amazing set of thoughts, rhymes, aphorisms, poems-plus-pictures I've ever come across. PietHein again proves there is nothing like a Dane. He has everything-wit, wisdom, insight, the proper amount of scepticism, and the almost miraculous genius for uttering large thoughts in the most condensed space." Louis Untermeyer-Leading American critic.
"He is a sage a best-selling author and poet, a popular convenor of assemblies of Nobel Laureates; the undoubted inventor of a form of small aphoristic verse called a Grook; the undoubted inventor, too, of a totally new shape, the Super Ellipse, that now rules Danish and Swedish design from the Stockholm City Centre to salad bowls. Oh yes, he's wise. " Sunday Times. England.
"Piet Hein is a master of the epigram. He must be read on at least two levels. I admire his work both on the more superficial and on the deeper level. What a wealth of... Tovább

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"It [Grooks I] is the most astounding little book I've seen in years; in some ways the most amazing set of thoughts, rhymes, aphorisms, poems-plus-pictures I've ever come across. PietHein again proves there is nothing like a Dane. He has everything-wit, wisdom, insight, the proper amount of scepticism, and the almost miraculous genius for uttering large thoughts in the most condensed space." Louis Untermeyer-Leading American critic.
"He is a sage a best-selling author and poet, a popular convenor of assemblies of Nobel Laureates; the undoubted inventor of a form of small aphoristic verse called a Grook; the undoubted inventor, too, of a totally new shape, the Super Ellipse, that now rules Danish and Swedish design from the Stockholm City Centre to salad bowls. Oh yes, he's wise. " Sunday Times. England.
"Piet Hein is a master of the epigram. He must be read on at least two levels. I admire his work both on the more superficial and on the deeper level. What a wealth of significant thought it contains. His mastery of English is remarkable."
Norbert Wiener, USA.
" the rhymed epigram is a most hazardous enterprise. It must have wit, or wisdom - preferably both - compressed into a tiny space, yet perfectly intelligible. Your obscure "modern" will write no memorable epigrams. Then it must have rhyme and it must scan. All this is formidable enough if you are writing in your own language. It is like (I imagine) being asked to do a graceful dance in corsets and a crinoline. To try it in someone else's language you must be a hero: to bring it off you must be pretty good I am proud to welcome PietHein to this part of Anglo-Dania."
Sir Alan Herbert (A. P. Herbert), England.

"Piet Hein is his name. Poet is perhaps an inadequate description for him. In his native Denmark he is regarded as a national institution, like that mermaid at the entrance to Copenhagen harbour. Try to imagine a mixture of A. P. Herbert and C. P. Snow - a kind of A. P. Snowbert - and you will get somewhere near him." Daily Mail, England.
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