Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StyleTraditionMatterMoreHim

I love 'Scarface.'

Max Minghella

LoveI Love

I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.

Stewart Lee

ArtGratefulPeopleThinkWhoMost

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.

Troye Sivan

FearMyselfBestDayChildhoodLong

To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.

Roger Federer

LifeFunnyGoodRedPeopleWeird

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

Ronald Blythe

LifeStrengthDeathPeopleDieLong

Seeing off the new ball is important for me. I know that once I do that, the only way I could get out could be from my own mistake.

Rohit Sharma

MistakeMeSeeingNewKnowWay

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Michael Steinhardt

SuccessProcessEndAddictionFruits

I do my job in Type O Negative.

Josh Silver

JobNegativeType

The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.

Derek Walcott

MyselfPeopleThoughtLanguageBeen

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

FailureEnoughSecurityAggressive

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

Asghar Farhadi

ThinkAudienceWatchSitFilmGive

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

DisciplineTrainingWarWorldFind

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