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

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John Crowe Ransom

#Position Quotes

“Some days success just means not giving up.”
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
“The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.”
“There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.”
“Iâ€™m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.”
“What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.”
“Feminism is not a rulebook, but a discussion, a conversation, a process.”
“He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.”

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