“Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing. (The Buddha)” — Alex Fan Moniz Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern… — Feist Copy Share Image
“...the modern mind...is interested above all in subtleties, equivocations and the subterranean complexities which dominate the average man and compose his life…modern… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke;… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People who achieve great success do so by persistently and successfully meeting the challenges on The Path. Their stories are found in… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“It is, of course, much easier for a literary character to take a risk for love. The realities of social strata and… — Evelyn Pryce Copy Share Image
“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“She knows he is there now, hedgehogged in terror. Like someone whose arm has been amputated, so, since they cut the umbilical… — Corinna Hasofferett Copy Share Image
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“It might be useful here to say a word about Beckett, as a link between the two stages, and as illustrating the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to… — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
“And one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confes- 11 sion and self- analysis that to write a work of genius… — Lee A. Jacobus Copy Share Image
