Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Modern nationalism swept Europe alongside the flourishing of industrialisation. Across the continent, poets and intellectuals cultivated and often heavily modified vernacular languages to be bearers of 19th century modernity. These guardians of langu...

Michael Gordin

It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that the meaning of the poem is provided to keep the mind busy while the poem gets on with its work -- like the bone thrown to the dog by the...

The Filled Pen: Selected Non-Fiction

Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life.

Don't Despair: Letters to a Modern Man

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

In his numerous historical and Scriptural works rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...

A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Larry Wall

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

Jim Lee

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Artist Descending a Staircase

Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.

The Happiness Manifesto

The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

All of the great writers and sages we are so quick to quote have simply given their interpretation of what it means to be human.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times