John C. 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 C. Ransom

Religion, Art, Keep

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
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

Life, Free, Miracle

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

Poetry, Against, Stand

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.
John C. Ransom

Impatient, Moderns

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

May, Sense, Sure

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 C. Ransom

Words, Sense, Between

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 C. Ransom

Work, Year, Exercise

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
John C. Ransom

Poetry, Escape, Arts

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

History, Made, Free

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

Far, Nonsense, Sober

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
John C. Ransom

Poet, Critic, Demanded

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

Waiting, Same, Style

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