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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
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
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
Thomas Menino
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 isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
Raymond Queneau
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
Jane Horrocks
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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 
63% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this quote
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
Thomas Menino
59% of people like this quote
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 isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
Raymond Queneau
59% of people like this quote
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
Jane Horrocks
59% of people like this quote
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
Kevin J. Anderson
57% of people like this quote
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.
Julie Taymor
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Karl Kraus
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Victor HugoKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelKarl KrausLaurie AndersonEthel WatersWilliam ShatnerKevin J. AndersonWalter BenjaminAjay NaiduBeau BridgesThomas MeninoSalvatore QuasimodoJerry Pournelle
Lascelles AbercrombieMike McCreadyJulie TaymorJohn DrinkwaterRaymond QueneauMelissa Auf der MaurAnatole BroyardRobert LyndJane HorrocksHart CraneJeffrey Eugenides FerdowsiStephen Bayley
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