Quotes About Modern

Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life.

In this complex modern world, it is impossible to be simple.

Being simple is the most complicated thing nowadays!

In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.

Patriotism is racism for the modern era.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.