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It is more honour to serve God, than to have kings serve us.
— Thomas Watson
I have been guilty of wrong thinking.
— Anne Hutchinson
Do not enforce the tired wolfDragging his infected wound homeward
To sit tonight with the warm children
Naming the pretty kings of France. — John Crowe Ransom
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
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
In all the good Greek of PlatoI lack my roastbeef and potato.
A better man was Aristotle,
Pulling steady on the bottle. — John Crowe Ransom
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
— John Crowe Ransom
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
— John Crowe Ransom
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
I am a lady young in beauty waitingUntil my truelove comes, and then we kiss. — John Crowe Ransom
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
— John Crowe Ransom
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
— John Crowe Ransom
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
— John Crowe Ransom
Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.
— Newton Lee
Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.
— Terre Thaemlitz
I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.
— Renee O'Connor
But we moderns are impatient and destructive.
— John Crowe Ransom
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
— John Crowe Ransom