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J. V. Cunningham
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“This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry is what looks like poetry, what sounds like poetry. It is metrical composition.”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Poetry, Structure and Tradition' Dec 31 1939
“With an a natural affinity for the epigram genre, I am, so to speak, a short breathed man and have an almost unthoughtout preference for brief definitive statements.”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is needed is a noticeable unnoticeable style,... a directness of speech that seems to one judging easily imitable, to one trying it nothing less so.”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Problem of Style, Fawcett, New York 1966
“An old dissembler who lived out his lie Lies here as if he did not fear to die.”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Despise me not And not be queasy To praise somewhat Verse is not easy”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'For my Contemporaries' from - The Helmsman 1942
“Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain And time grows fertile with extended pain”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Exclusion of Rhyme' Alan Swallow Denver 1942
“What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure — it is much too broad and narrow —, Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a few days now when two memories meet", 1964, in The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1997,
“She said he was a man who cheated. He said she didn't play the game. She said an expletive deleted. He said the undeleted same. And so they ended their relation With meaningful communication.”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jack and Jill", 1981, in The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1997,
“Plato, despair! We prove by norms How numbers bear Empiric forms, How random wrong Will average right If time be long And error slight, But in our hearts Hyperbole Curves and departs To infinity. Error is boundless. Nor hope nor doubt, Though both be groundless, Will average out.”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meditation on Statistical Method”, 1960, in The Exclusions of a Rhyme: Poems and Epigrams, Ohio University Press, 1960.