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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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part."

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Akiroq Brost

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

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Akiroq Brost

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

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Akiroq Brost

"Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you."

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Akiroq Brost

"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."

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Akiroq Brost

"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."

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Akiroq Brost

"Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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Akiroq Brost

"I started playing guitar kind of by accident."

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Akiroq Brost

"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."

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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
"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
"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
"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."

Accident

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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."

Work

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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
"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."

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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."

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

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