Epic Poems Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy… — A. E. Douglass
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare… — Fady Joudah
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he… — Lascelles Abercrombie
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. — Laurie Anderson
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed… — H. L. Mencken
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.… — Herman Melville
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as… — Miguel de Cervantes
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. — William Shakespeare
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of… — Alexandre Dumas
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities… — Don DeLillo
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and… — Leo Tolstoy
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are… — Daniel Handler
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. — Seamus Heaney
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems. — Antony Beevor
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden

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