It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
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At that time I had no notion that I should ever come to live in Somerset - to live actually within the range of what then lay before me.Laurence Housman
Though while at South Kensington I took a few prizes in the National Competition, I did not get near to having a style of my own.
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Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
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My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
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My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.
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