John Crowe Ransom

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

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.

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

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.