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It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an…
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty,…
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to…
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very…
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the…
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age…
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it…
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new…
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the…
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner…

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope
If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused. — Dale Carnegie
An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be… — Dale Carnegie
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their… — Richard Baxter
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from… — Saint John Chrysostom
The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to… — Socrates
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt
The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. — Oscar Wilde
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths.… — Okakura Kakuzo

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