"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."

May, Prose, Result, Sense

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"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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Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn."

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"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."

Owen Glendower, Welsh Royalty

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"Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone."

Elizabeth Fry, English Clergyman

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"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not."

Lukas Foss, German Composer

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"They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade."

John Paul Stevens, American Judge

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"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."

Frank Sinatra, American Musician

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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables."

Vernon Duke, Russian Composer

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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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"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."

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

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

History

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

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

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"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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