Moderns Quotes

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.