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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
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.
— Debra Messing
Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them. (when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan) — Johan Cruijff
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Ain't too young for nothing." "In some societies that would be true. Different places. Different times. You'd be old enough to be a wife and mother.
— Karen Marie Moning
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Within reach of his hand, the Bloody-Nine was master. The
— Joe Abercrombie
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
The world loves to be deceived.
— Sebastian Franck