Beowulf Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
— Christopher Paolini
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But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene...…
— Ken Kesey
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort…
— Karl Rove
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the…
— A. N. Wilson
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Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king,…
— Burton Raffel
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Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong and…
— Burton Raffel
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Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
— Woody Allen
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She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she…
— Cornelia Funke
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody…
— Dorothy Parker
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We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today,…
— Julie Taymor
Who Wrote These Beowulf Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Beowulf Quotes as follows: