Top 15 John Crowe Ransom Quotes (2024 Update)

John Crowe Ransom Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.”

2. “And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.”

3. “Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.”

4. “And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living.”

6. “It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “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.”

7. “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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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.”

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

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “But we moderns are impatient and destructive.”

9. “But we moderns are impatient and destructive.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.”

10. “Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.”

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

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape?”

14. “The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape?”

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.”

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

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John Crowe Ransom Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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