“We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.”
As quoted in "Babylon Nights : A David Spandau Novel" (2010) by Daniel Depp
Context: Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
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Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: The dead do not suffer. And if they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all.
We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.
Oswald Mosley (1896–1980) British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists
'Comrades in Struggle' (June 1938).
“Flame out the living words of the dead
Written-in-red.”
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
"Written-In-Red" de Cleyre's last poem, dedicated "To Our Living Dead in Mexico's Struggle"; first lines.
Context: Written in red their protest stands,
For the Gods of the World to see;
On the dooming wall their bodiless hands
have blazoned "Upharsin," and flaring brands
Illumine the message: "Seize the lands!
Open the prisons and make men free!"
Flame out the living words of the dead
Written-in-red.
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
William Faulkner book Requiem for a Nun
Act 1, sc. 3; this has sometimes been paraphrased or misquoted as "The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
Source: Requiem for a Nun (1951)
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Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Shikwa. https://archive.org/details/ShikwaJawabIShikwaIqbalsDialogueWithAllahTrKhushwantSinghIqbal <br class="br">Shikwa & Jawab Shikwa : The complaint and the answer : the human grievance and the divine response
Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Source: Shikwa. https://archive.org/details/ShikwaJawabIShikwaIqbalsDialogueWithAllahTrKhushwantSinghIqbal