Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

We live someone else’s life without trying to understand and become what we are really designed to be

DARE TO BE IRRESISTIBLE!

The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whose author promises a blessing to those who read it.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.