Art Quote by Richard Armour

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

“The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself is a…

— Ronald Carter

Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong…

— Burton Raffel

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the same time…

— Bernard Knox

“Heroic poetry tends in its simplest form to be concerned with immediate events and local heroes. A certain length of tradition is required before…

— Richard Barber

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or…

— Kevin Smith

“Christianity - and that is its greatest merit - has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war, but it could not destroy it.…

— Heinrich Heine

A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while,…

— Carlos Castaneda

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great…

— William Blake