#moderns

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. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. ↗

— Robert Frost

#moderns #sick #space #us

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

— William Penn

#how #know #learning #live #moderns

But we moderns are impatient and destructive. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#impatient #moderns

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#did #learn #moderns #must #poetry

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#fragments #many #moderns #origin #their