Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its...

Catch-22

In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only ...

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

For Cixi, the whole episode taught her that to survive at court she must hold her tongue about state affairs. This was difficult, as she could see that the dynasty was in trouble. The victorious Taiping rebels not only consolidated their bases in sou...

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who killed each other about the orthodoxy of the Homoousion were far more sensible than the people who are quarrelling about the Education Act...

Heretics

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a highbrow, at another anathematizes him for blasphemously undermining his religion; but at the mention ...

Reflections of a Physicist

There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to matter enormously but to give the thing an extrao...

Modern Library

Sadly but, perhaps, not altogether unexpectedly this society has had very limited success in achieving what is supposed to be the justification for its existence-- the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest possible number of people. In so far...

King of the Castle: Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World

No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all of this bloody retribution, it's hard to see how mono...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I’d seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a characteristic I found shocking and confusing the ...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of 's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outw...

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans ...

The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is li...

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely...

Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats

Men in western governments who were themselves are often modern men, did not understand that freedom without chaos is not a magic formula which can be implanted anywhere. Rather, being modern men, it was their view that, because human race had evolve...

Francis A. Schaeffer

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

The Complete Poetry

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.

Castle Stories

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Flaubert's Parrot

It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh

The House at Pooh Corner

In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Satyajit Ray

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Fernand Leger