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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…

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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an…
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty,…
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to…
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very…
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the…
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age…
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it…
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new…
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the…
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner…

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Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Unknown Author
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into… — Unknown Author
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… — 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… — 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… — Herman Melville
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about… — 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… — 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… — Don DeLillo

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