"The world knows of a vast stock of……" — Lascelles Abercrombie
"The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always."
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23 Quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production…
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving…
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an…
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but…
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not…
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the…
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of…
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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…
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is…
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always…
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More Archaeological Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be…
— Paul Virilio
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by…
— Loren Eiseley
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Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source…
— Marija Gimbutas
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My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other…
— Jean M. Auel
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Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something…
— Agatha Christie
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On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one…
— Millar Burrows
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
— Zahi Hawass
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Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely…
— Spencer Wells
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My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected…
— Gay Talese
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to…
— Vicente Fox
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Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of…
— Charlie Campbell
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