《文心雕龙·通变》
因为作家们都争着模仿近代作品，而忽视向古人学习，所以文坛上的风气就日益衰落了。
从质及讹，弥近弥澹，何则？竞今疏古，风昧气衰也。
Because writers were always competing to imitate modern works, they ignored studying the works of the ancients, and this led to an increasing decline in the standards of writing.