What beauty is there, but thou makest it?
(Vashti)
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It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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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.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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