Quotes by John C Ransom

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as...

#John C Ransom

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

#John C Ransom

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far...

#John C Ransom

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

#John C Ransom

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

#John C Ransom

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will...

#John C Ransom

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation...

#John C Ransom

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

#John C Ransom

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which...

#John C Ransom

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage...

#John C Ransom

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

#John C Ransom

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

#John C Ransom