Author: John Crowe Ransom

Quotes

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

- John Crowe Ransom

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

- John Crowe Ransom

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

- John Crowe Ransom

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.

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

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.

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

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