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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 and unexpected things;…

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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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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new… — Lascelles Abercrombie
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Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. — Norman McLaren
Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite… — Leo Tolstoy
Nothing quite new is perfect. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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