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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…
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty,…
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to…
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very…
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the…
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age…
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it…
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new…
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to…
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Jesus was never worried or perplexed. He was calmly and completely in control of every situation. He never doubted that His Father's…
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A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant…
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Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much…
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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since…
— Jeff Cooper
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All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,…
— Edmund Burke
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Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When…
— Liv Ullmann
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