Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poe

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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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. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness. – Ossie Davis

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I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio… It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and thats what this story represents to me. – Gerard Butler

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One of the things that people dont realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well. – Ed Rendell

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