I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down to people who I know are very smart.


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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the e...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content....
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of thi...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of on...
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
I must apologize, it seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.
MILLARD IN MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN BY RANSOM RIGGS