Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“As they get more nuclear
And more bigoted in reliance
On the gospel of modern science ...”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)