On Milton (1825)
“Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.”
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
The Corruptions of Our Time, p. 238
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.”
Charles Dickens book Our Mutual Friend
Bk. I, Ch. 5
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)
“A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
“…modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning…”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden’s Poetry”, p. 149
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Nick Land (1962) British philosopher
"A Republic, If You Can Keep It" https://web.archive.org/web/20140327090001/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/articles/12321 (2013) (original emphasis)
Michael Harrington book The Other America
Source: The Other America (1962), Appendix, sct. 1
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Source: The Roman Empire (1967), p. 176
Charles A. Reich book The Greening of America
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XI : Revolution By Consciousness, p. 301
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli, p. 147
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
