"And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious." ― John C. Ransom Topic(s): Poetry More From John C. Ransom "For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties." "The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape?" More In Poetry "I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."― Wislawa Szymborska "On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."― Hu Shih "Otherwise I don’t read much adult poetry at all, because I’m not smart enough and mostly I don’t get it."― Jack Prelutsky