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Epic Quotes
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 Quotes
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. - Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. Thats probably the most pretentious thing Ive said. - Laurie Anderson Quotes
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition. - Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling. - Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that. - Hart Crane Quotes
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. - Ethel Waters Quotes
This by no means the last word on the Chinese in America. This is my personal interpretation of the 150-year epic history of Chinese in this country. - Iris Chang Quotes
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. - Hart Crane Quotes
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin Quotes
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. - Stephen Bayley Quotes
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. Its an important part of epic literature. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
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 Quotes
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always. - Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardners contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. - Julie Taymor Quotes
I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them. - Mike Mccready Quotes
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. - William Shatner Quotes
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. - Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of mans general destiny. - Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. - Karl Kraus Quotes
I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. Thats what turns me on. - Melissa Auf Der Maur Quotes
And for the citys birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Bostons great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most. - Thomas Menino Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. - Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
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 herself. - Kevin Smith Quotes
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isnt interested any longer. Thats very astonishing. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. - Victor Hugo Quotes
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