Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Lascelles Abercrombie

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 would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Victor Hugo

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Salvatore Quasimodo

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Lascelles Abercrombie

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

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

John Drinkwater

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Lascelles Abercrombie

I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long y...

Patrick Rothfuss

Jesus didn't die on the cross so we can do something epic. He died so we can have a relationship with an epic God who moves in epic ways!

Alisa Hope Wagner

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

Persian

It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part. - Leonard

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine.

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Logicomix: An epic search for truth

It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

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

Lascelles Abercrombie

He who whets his steel, whets his courage

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae