Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of … - John Crowe Ransom

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Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.

John Crowe Ransom

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

Apart, Heart, Loath, Two, Winter

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

Ransom, Same, Style, Waiting

The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it.

Beaten, Character, Discovered, Lay, Real, Thinking

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

Gravy, Mercy, Pewter, Vowels, Writing

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

Destructive, Impatient, Moderns

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

Good, Men, Philosophical, Plato, Pulling, Roastbeef