Modern Spoken Manchu

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or spoken:

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

    “Prose—it might be speculated—is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of “communication”; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider’s delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.”
    —Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)