 Sometimes I have my doubts of words altogether and I ask myself what is the place of them. They are worse than nothing unless they do something, unless they amount to deeds as in ultimatums and war crys.  The Michigan Alumnus - Page 2611929Full view - About this book
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 396 pages
...have my doubts of words altogether," wrote Frost in what might be called an unofficial document, " and I ask myself what is the place of them. They are...definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would bejthis : words that , have becom€ deedsT* In the.Jjght of these conclusions, it is doubly informative... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 280 pages
...argued that any man's "humor shows fear and inferiority. Irony is simply a kind of guardedness."20 Sometimes I have my doubts of words altogether and...something, unless they amount to deeds as in ultimatums and war crys \sic]. They must be flat and final like the showdown in poker from which there is no appeal.... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 276 pages
...that any man's "humor shows fear and inferiority. Irony is simply a kind of guardedness."20 Somet1mes I have my doubts of words altogether and I ask myself...something, unless they amount to deeds as in ultimatums and war crys \sic\. They must be flat and final like the showdown in poker from which there is no appeal.... | |
 | Mark Richardson - Individualism in literature - 1997 - 296 pages
...already somewhat embarrassed. Frost seems to acknowledge that poetry is not usually "work" at all: "Sometimes I have my doubts of words altogether, and...are worse than nothing unless they do something." In this he may concede too much. Despite his assertive tone Frost essentially takes up the defensive... | |
 | Robert Faggen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 308 pages
...accounts of the poetic vocation - a good example is his claim, in a 1921 brochure, that the poet's words "must be flat and final like the show-down in poker, from which there is no appeal" (CPPP, 701) - are probably maintained through considerable, or at least noticeable, exertions. In this... | |
 | John H. Timmerman - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 212 pages
...departs from language as an aesthetic tool, then, to language as an ethical matter. Here he writes, "Sometimes I have my doubts of words altogether and...something, unless they amount to deeds as in ultimatums and war crys [sic]. . . . My definition of literature would be just this, words that have become deeds"... | |
 | Walter Jost - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 376 pages
...fight is to leave words and act as if you believed — to act as 1f you bel1eved. Sometimes I leave my doubts of words altogether and I ask myself what...something, unless they amount to deeds as in ultimatums and war crys [sic]. . . . My definition of literature would be just this: words that have become deeds."... | |
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