Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to

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 the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series – though not in exact repetition. – 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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The older Ive got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. – Reynolds Price

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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for. – Jean Cocteau

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