Captains Quote by John Crowe Ransom

“Tell this to ladies: how a hero man Assail a thick and scandalous giant Who casts true shadow in the sun, And die, but…

— John Crowe Ransom

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

— John Crowe Ransom

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France.

— John Crowe Ransom

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

— John Crowe Ransom

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand…

— John Crowe Ransom

The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the…

— 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

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

— John Crowe Ransom

I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in…

— John Crowe 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…

— John Crowe Ransom

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent -…

— John Crowe Ransom