Beauty Quote by Christopher Paolini

“Beowulf stands out as a poem which makes extensive use of this kind of figurative language. There are over one thousand compounds in the…

— Ronald Carter

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable…

— Natasha Trethewey

“Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf At various times, I have asked myself what reasons moved me to study, while my night came…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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…

— Julie Taymor

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

— Chris Abani

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.

— Edwin Morgan

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

“No ideologues, not even religious ones, are going to be happy with Tolkien, unless they manage it by misreading him. For like all great…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn…

— Michael Portillo

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the…

— Samantha Shannon

“Shift #5 for Seamus Heaney a box of coconut water two cans of coconut milk so many looking for help some people care when…

— Ali Liebegott

I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether…

— Hannah Kent