But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the

“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.”

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable

“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

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Instead, it appears to be a particular

“Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Author: Moses Mendelssohn
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