There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
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What beauty is there, but thou makest it?
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Shall life do more than God?
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It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
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And when I fell from there,
Then knew I also what this life would do
In being twin,-in being man and woman!
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