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John C. Ransom

"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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Donna Grant

"After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end."

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Donna Grant

"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."

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Donna Grant

"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."

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Donna Grant

"I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."

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Donna Grant

"Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature."

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Donna Grant

"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."

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Donna Grant

"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."

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Donna Grant

"It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen."

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Donna Grant

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

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Donna Grant

"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

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John C. Ransom
"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 C. Ransom
"And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious."

Poetry

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John C. Ransom
"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"

Poetry

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John C. Ransom
"Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history."

History

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John C. Ransom
"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."

Excess

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John C. Ransom
"It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things."

Life

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John C. Ransom
"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."

Art

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

Poet

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John C. Ransom
"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 C. Ransom
"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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