Author: F. L. Lucas

Quotes

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

- F. L. Lucas

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

- F. L. Lucas

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

- F. L. Lucas

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

- F. L. Lucas

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