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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. -- Laurie Anderson
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. -- William Shakespeare
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. -- Seamus Heaney
Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue. -- Roger Ebert
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse. -- Edmund Spenser
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all. -- William Morris
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
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. -- Leo Tolstoy
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end. -- A. E. Douglass
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics. -- H. L. Mencken
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet. -- Daniel Handler
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face. -- Alexandre Dumas
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth. -- Miguel de Cervantes
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. -- Giles Foden
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems. -- Antony Beevor
Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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