Quotes about Art by Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie British Poet

But it is Virgil who really begins the development of epic art.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about art

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about art

Man creating his own destiny, man, however wearied with the long task of resistance, achieving some conscious community of aspiration, and dreaming of the perfection of himself: the poet whose lovely and noble art makes us a great symbol of that,...

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about art

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about art