Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

Real Wyrd : A Modern Shaman's Roots in the Middle World

The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.

The Menace Of The Herd: Or, Procrustes At Large

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths

This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.

Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

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

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

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

Attempting to contain the infinite within finite symbolism of language may result in scholarship, but it will not produce devotion. (110)

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

Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)

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

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

Martin Filler

I love 'Modern Family; I think that is a great show. I don't get to watch tons of TV, but when I do, 'Sons of Anarchy' is pretty much the number one, and 'Modern Family' is one of my favorites.

Ashley Tisdale

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure princi...

Ronald Fisher

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

Peter L. Berger

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

Erwin Rommel

The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

Youssou N'Dour

And when life's sweet fable ends, Soul and body part like friends; No quarrels, murmurs, no delay; A kiss, a sigh, and so away.

The Complete Poetry Of Richard Crashaw

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

Complete Poems

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.

Dead Poets Society