Vernon Scannell quotes - page 2

I would say that my aims of writing this book are less concerned with the facts of history than with the truth of art. (Vernon Scannell)

In the excitement and rigours of the game or battle with words and shapes, self-interest is mislaid and objective truth may often be revealed.

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I hope this book will throw a little light on the nature of human coutage and its lack.. when the last argument of kings viz cannon or war pursues its loud & murderous course.

Vernon Scannell

Well, here I suppose is my life, or part of it, by which I would wish to be judged... poems which have been written from a sense of compulsion, a real need to explore and articulate experiences which have been important to me.

Vernon Scannell

I'm no novelist.Or anything else, I suppose, except, just possibly a poet, once in a while.

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Neither Sassoon or Owen were notably exploratory or original in technique,each developed a style which permitted them to give a full expression to their deepest thoughts & feelings about war.

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Whether we are writing prose or verse we must never use language in a merely decorative way, every qualifying word, every adjective and adverb must be carefully inspected & weighed before it is used and ask before its use, is it really necessary.

Vernon Scannell

The word experiment derives from 'experimentum' - that which has been experienced and what, for the writer, has been experienced is the work of his great predecessors.

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Vernon Scannell

Occupation: British Boxer
Born: January 23, 1922
Died: November 16, 2007
Quotes count: 33
Wikipedia: Vernon Scannell

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