Some by Old Words to Fame have made Pretence;
Ancients in Phrase, meer Moderns in their Sense!
Some by Old Words to Fame have made Pretence;
Ancients in Phrase, meer Moderns in their Sense!
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.
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.
But we moderns are impatient and destructive.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Not only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits , those who expound to the people gathering fame, use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises, they benefit by the scholarship, but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.
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