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Beowulf Quotes by Burton Raffel
- Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king,…
- 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…
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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
- But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull… — Ken Kesey
- But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject… — Karl Rove
- Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter… — A. N. Wilson
- Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames… — Burton Raffel
- Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now,… — Burton Raffel
- Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF. — Woody Allen
- She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's… — Cornelia Funke
- There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot,… — Dorothy Parker
- We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring… — Julie Taymor