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In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. man has only to strive for it. poems greater than the iliad, plays greater than macbeth, stories more engaging than don quixote await their seeker and finder.
-John Masefield
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In The Power And Splendor Of The

John Masefield
In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. man has only to strive for it. poems greater than the iliad, plays greater than macbeth, stories more engaging than don quixote await their seeker and finder.
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For me, life without literature is inconceivable. i think that don quixote in a physical sense never existed, but don quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. much more. there's nobody who can compete with don quixote or with hamlet. so in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
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My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. and i practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "the iliad" and "the odyssey." i told those stories many, many times. and the way i would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, i'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. i did believe that.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - the bible, homer, shakespeare.... the bible before the iliad, the iliad before shakespeare.
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[may 1958, on playing macbeth at age 30 and age 48] when you're a young man, macbeth is a character part. when you're older, it's a straight part.
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