Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 9, 1881 - October 27, 1938

Topics

PoetryFallWithinEpicSpecies

I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.

Jesse Ball

WorldBookThinkCreateFiftyHalf

I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.

Jennifer Connelly

LifeLiveHappyPerceptionMovies

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

Andra Day

GroundShareSomethingCommonBoth

Sport is one way of keeping kids off their phones.

Ann Makosinski

WayPhonesOffKidsOne WayKeeping

You always hear people say, 'I just want to live comfortably.' And I'm like, 'What does that mean?'

Andy Mineo

LivePeopleYouSayWantMean

My personal view is that Iran, left to its own devices, will get itself to that step right below a nuclear weapon, that permanent breakout stage, so the needle isn't quite in the red for the international community. And, frankly, that will be as destabilizing as their actually having a weapon.

Michael Hayden

CommunityRedStepViewPersonal

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

Steve Carlton

DayYourselfStartRightUpOff

I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.

Simon Pegg

MeLovedPlayingDifferentHe

Look, I am very competitive.

Tony Blair

I AmLookCompetitiveVeryAm

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

Robin Marantz Henig

DemonsAngelsFirstReligions

I've been watching 'Luther' since the beginning. My family adore it, too, so it was like a passion project for me.

Rose Leslie

FamilyPassionBeginningMeWatching

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

Matt Berninger

WorkSayingTryingAnythingRings

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