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But we moderns are impatient and destructive.
John C. Ransom

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

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

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

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

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert Frost

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