Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

Don’t say that poetry, my friend, is beautiful or powerful for there is no powerful or beautiful poetry There is poetry that strikes you, secretly with the diseases of writing and schizophrenia, and you rave and your self leaves you for another

A River Dies of Thirst: journals

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emoti...

Jane Yolen

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering – these are noble pursuits and necessary to...

Robin Williams

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Anne-Marie Duff

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

Emilia Clarke

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

George R. R. Martin

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

Gerard Way

Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of leisure, which this rich land of ours would bestow upon us if we wished, a...

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

And he came to understand how those almost mystical bonds of trust and affection, if nurtured correctly, might lift a crew above the ordinary sphere, transport it to a place where nine boys somehow became one thing - a thing that could not quite be d...

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group is responsible for its continuance.... Both races need to understand that their rights and duties are mutual...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Remember...You can fool all but the universe!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

The writing in itself is transformative for me.

Liquid Me: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Kenneth Koch

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Archibald MacLeish

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

Franz Wright

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W.S. Merwin

Do you know the reason why poetry and philosophy are nothing but dead-letter nowadays? It is because they have severed themselves from life. In Greece, ideas went hand-in-hand with life; so that the artist's life was already a poetic realisation, the...

Andre Gide

I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love

The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941