John Crowe Ransom Quotes & Sayings

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13 most famous John Crowe Ransom quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.”
John Crowe Ransom Quotes
“Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.”
John Crowe Ransom Quotes
“For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.”
John Crowe Ransom Quotes
“Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.”
John Crowe Ransom Quotes
“Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.”
John Crowe Ransom Quotes
“And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.”
John Crowe Ransom Quotes
“And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.”
John Crowe Ransom Quotes
“But we moderns are impatient and destructive.”
John Crowe Ransom Quotes
“It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.”
John Crowe Ransom Quotes
“The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?”

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