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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.


Walter Pater


#developed #earlier #element #general #important

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

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.


Terry Prachett


#female #genitals #had #hard #inadvertently

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.


Manuel Puig


#american cinema #certain #cinema #intention #me

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?


John C. Ransom


#escape #generally #had #how #modernism

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.


John C. Ransom


#impatient #moderns

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.


John C. Ransom


#develop #distinguished #event #fall #form

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.


Andre Rieu


#create #i #i am #lighting #like

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.


Geraldo Rivera


#extol #forces #israeli #jewish #modern

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.


Mitt Romney


#american history #barack #barack obama #friends #greatest