Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas -- The Art of Poetry [L’Art Poétique], Canto 3 (1674)

Dave — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:48:23 +0000

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) French poet and critic
The Art of Poetry [L’Art Poétique], Canto 3 (1674)

Santayana, George -- Winds of Doctrine (1913)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

George Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-American poet and philosopher [Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruíz de Santayana y Borrás]
Winds of Doctrine (1913)