Famous Quotes
"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind."
More quotes about Work
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"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Confucius on Work -
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work -
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas A. Edison on Work -
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
Robert Frost on Work -
"Nothing will work unless you do."
Maya Angelou on Work
More quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie
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"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."
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"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."