John Crowe Ransom Quotes

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, was generally exhausted at the end of the year, and just wanted to hide. I described myself as a 'cranky Jewish kid who felt left out by Christmas.'

I do have a lot of resolutions, but I don't really make them at New Year's much.

My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)

he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is absolutely the case. Leading off from formal poetry, there is something about when you pay attention to form and you allow it to have its own laws and you listen to those laws you really do end up in places you wouldn't otherwise go. Which isn't to say that I believe in following the rules when I write. I don't. Each of the forms in my books feels to me new.

I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

It's pretty difficult to promote something the week after Christmas and the week before New Year's.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.