Quotes By John C. Ransom
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
John C. Ransom
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 C. Ransom
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
John C. Ransom
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
John C. Ransom
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
John C. Ransom
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 C. Ransom