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John Crowe Ransom quotes: Do not enforce the tired wolfDragging his infected wound homewardTo sit tonight with the warm childrenNaming the pretty kings of France.

Do not enforce the tired wolf
Dragging his infected wound homeward
To sit tonight with the warm children
Naming the pretty kings of France.

John Crowe Ransom quotes: 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.

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

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

John Crowe Ransom quotes: In all the good Greek of PlatoI 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.

John Crowe Ransom quotes: 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 quotes: Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

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

John Crowe Ransom quotes: I am a lady young in beauty waitingUntil my truelove comes, and then we kiss.

I am a lady young in beauty waiting
Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss.

John Crowe Ransom quotes: The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

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

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 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.

John Crowe Ransom quotes: And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

John Crowe Ransom quotes: 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 quotes: But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.