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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things."
"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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