F. L. Lucas Quotes

F. L. Lucas
English Critic
Born: 1894
Died: 1967
Few Grace History Make Most Word
Related authors: Aleister Crowley Charles Lamb Charlie Brooker Clive Bell John Churton Collins Terry Eagleton Walter Pater William Hazlitt
Most style is not honest enough. F. L. Lucas
Style Enough Most Honest
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. F. L. Lucas
Better Preach Pulpit Voice Directly Poetry Open Had Fails Imply Than Them Far Grows Her Things
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. F. L. Lucas
Art Nature Tired World Men Sense Everything Civilization Part Like Because Came Modern Common Tire Literature Common Sense Turn Much Wars Whose Two World Wars
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. F. L. Lucas
People Writing Trouble Impress Clarity Rather Mainly Taking How Than Achieved Them Serve
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
Me Trust Simple Matters Few Ears Rules Seem Both Writers Prose Principles Readers Sound Where Rhythm Apart Much Should English

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