modernist literature

🇺🇸John Updike

Literature

modernist literature

1932–2009

"It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you."

Joseph Conrad

fiction

modernist literature

1857–1924

"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."

🇬🇧T. S. Eliot

Literature

modernist literature

1888–1965

"What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."

🇺🇸John Dos Passos

Literature

modernist literature

1896–1970

"In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people."

🇳🇿Katherine Mansfield

Literature

modernist literature

1888–1923

"When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

🇺🇸Djuna Barnes

Literature

modernist literature

1892–1982

"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life’s lived before it gets to the parlor door."

🇺🇸Paul Laurence Dunbar

Literature

modernist literature

1872–1906

"Dunbar's Legacy of Language, an NPR story marking the 100th anniversary of Dunbar's death; included is a poetry reading."

🇺🇸Margaret Caroline Anderson

Literature

modernist literature

1886–1973

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

🇬🇧D. H. Lawrence

Literature

modernist literature

1885–1930

"D. H. Lawrence resource at the University of Nottingham"