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Lascelles Abercrombie

"By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made."

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Donna Grant

"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

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Donna Grant

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

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Donna Grant

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

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Donna Grant

"Music gives life to the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

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Donna Grant

"Music gives strength to the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

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Donna Grant

"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."

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Donna Grant

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

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Donna Grant

"Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.""I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray."

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Lascelles Abercrombie
"The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read."

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"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been."

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Lascelles Abercrombie
"By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made."

Art

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Lascelles Abercrombie
"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."

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Lascelles Abercrombie
"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 individual mind."

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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 circumscribed and not very important heroic age."

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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 are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."

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"The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time."

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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 is, not because of what it does."

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