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.
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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Criss Jami
Be happy, not contented.
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Biju Paulose
Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
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Tim Fargo
You really don't have to subscribe to the life that had been written for you.
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Allan Hennessy
You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.
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Shannon L. Alder
More Quotes By Lascelles Abercrombie
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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.
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.
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.
