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

— John C. Ransom

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

— John C. Ransom

#conditions #how #new #perfectly #poetry

But we moderns are impatient and destructive. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#impatient #moderns

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

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I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

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I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#acting #explore #humanity #i #more

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#being #best #greatest #hip-hop #i

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ↗

— Ralph Ransom

#harvest #joy #labor #must #plant