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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and indep

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. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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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. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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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, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

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My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. – Samuel Prout

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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. – F. L. Lucas

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