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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality and on nothing else.
Quotes By Lascelles Abercrombie
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the...
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Traditional matter must be glorified since it would be easier to listen to...
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That is to say epic poetry has been invented many times and independently...
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If epic poetry is a definite species the sagas do not fall within it.
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By the general process of epic poetry I mean the way this form of art has...
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from a man would decide...
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Poetry is the work of poets not of peoples or communities artistic creation...
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material...
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But the gravest difficulty and perhaps the most important in poetry meant...
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly...
Quotes About Age
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
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The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
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Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
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What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.