Biographies Quote by Thomas Carlyle

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

— Thomas Carlyle

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

— Thomas Carlyle

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

— John Dryden

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor…

— Wilfred Owen

“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

I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

— Anonymous

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has…

— Henry David Thoreau

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

— Wallace Stevens