"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

-- John Crowe Ransom

#Waiting Quotes #Style Quotes #Poetic Quotes

“But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.”
“The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.”
“I've exceeded a few of my goals, but I'm behind on a couple of others.”
“Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.”
“My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant talent, you have to believe in the future. It makes me hungry, as a 65-year-old. I'm not thinking about the time that is behind me. I'm thinking of these people that I watch to catch up with and be in their company.”

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“Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.”
“I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.”
“I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.”

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