“Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?” EndsPastWishProcessImpossibleModernCenturyProductsEndurePoetry IsTransitionExtensionsRomanticismRomantic PoetryModern Poetry Author:Randall Jarrell
“Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.” MenDoeWarStatesLastsVisionModernTerribleCapitalismDestructionRelationEndureAvailableGuaranteesSacramentsModern ManInterpersonal Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.” ViewsModernSubjectsEvolutionHonorPhilosophicalEndurePhilosopherCriticalDoctrineAnalysisAssumptionBiologyMetaphysicalCrucifixionBiologistHigh PlacesCritical Analysis Author:George Trumbull Ladd
“Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.” WorldChristianChristModernFoolPrayingEndureSakeScarySophisticatedDestinedScornMeltingModern Society Author:Antonin Scalia
“The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.” HumansArtistOrderClearEconomicModernEffectsActivityProjectsEnlightenmentConceptsBuiltLaborAimEndureSakeProductionsPostsCyclesConsumptionConsumerismHuman SocietyOverconsumptionHuman ActivityUnendingCraftsmanObsolescenceEconomic Order Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.” WorldInfluenceModernStudentsAppreciateEndureModern WorldInfernoFlorence Author:Dan Brown
“For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.” AmericaHalfModernCenturyEndureJapanAlliancesBushismModern Times Author:George W. Bush