Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit a certain academic styles and standards, then it is not poetry. Poetry should relate to the man on the street who has to work for...

Harley King

Anita Miller: It's unfair that we can't listen to our music! Elaine Miller: That's because it's music about drugs and promiscuous sex. Anita Miller: Simon and Garfunkel is poetry! Elaine Miller: Yes it's poetry. It's poetry of drugs and promiscuous s...

Almost Famous

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.

Dandelion Dreams

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

Ridley Scott

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

John Boyega

After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'

Jim Sturgess

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Giles Foden

During life's crisis...try to worry less and smile more.

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

If you're not part of the solution...then you're part of the problem. Don't be part of the problem!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

In Every Aspect Of Your Life, Be Amazing...Be You!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Abuse...Injustice....Hate...Racism...Are all the same! They're all WRONG!✌

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Live your life... No mater where you live it :)

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.

Mythopia: Poetry

A poem needs as well as of content.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Adrian Mitchell

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

Blake Jenner

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Carol Ann Duffy

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Diane Wakoski

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

John Drinkwater

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

Peter Davison