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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.
Vernon Scannell
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.
Vernon Scannell
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.
Vernon Scannell
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.
Vernon Scannell
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