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John Crowe Ransom Quotes: And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.
         

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.


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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.

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.



When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.



And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.



But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.



God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.



In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.



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.

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.



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

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



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.



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.





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When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die.



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These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.



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I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.



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If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.



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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.



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