Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their...

Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World

They rode through the quiet streets. The rain had stopped and an early morning mist fell around them under the streetlights. Victor remembered that his ancestors had believed this was a magical time when the gods walked the earth, Götterdämmerung, ...

Vector a Modern Love Story

Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them. The essence of good manners is not exclusivity, nor exclusion of any kind, but sensitivity. To practice good manners is to...

Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That: A Modern Guide to Manners

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has e...

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein lies, I believe, the essence of the tragedy of modern times. The modern man lives as if Christianit...

The Whole Person in a Broken World

I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying “It takes one to know one” when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consci...

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

In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John Dalton ... the other that of James Prescott Joule. ... Thus the honour is done to Manchester's two greatest sons—t...

Henry Enfield Roscoe

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream...

Jack London

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

The Complete Poetry

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

Christopher Koch

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Lord Byron

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Eugenio Montale

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Marianne Moore

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

The Anthologist

POETRY HAS A PEPTIC PRESENCE. PRESENTLY.

Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country

Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon, illuminate the shadows in the sky.

Reflections of Poetry

Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you.

Skinny Dipping in Daylight

Poetry is the sound of the human animal.

St Suniti & the Dragon

Drunk forever dreaming you with or without you

A moment with God ; Poetry