Top 1200 Epic Poems Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama.

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.

We saw some resistance in the Wichita market until we partnered with EPIC. The increased awareness and information handed out regarding ethanol-enriched fuel made a huge difference in the public's perception.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I love being part of these giant, epic movies. I take great pride in being part of them.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

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.

I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

It really showed that you can do a major motion picture, from the folks at Marvel, that has multiple characters on an epic scale. On top of that, it also showed us that one of the most important elements is a certain kind of levity.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

I would definitely say the last episode is as epic as probably any episode that 'Once Upon a Time' has ever done. I mean, it's massive; it's huge. It's like taking the best of all seasons and jamming it into one - literally.

I don’t feel that I’m making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch it on an iPhone, I’m not going to stop them, especially if they’re paying for it, but I don’t recommend it. I think it’s dumb, when you have characters that are so small in the frame that they’re not visible. I’m trying to make an epic.

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to be treated with respect and subtlety, and you can't just go in all guns blazing and make an epic action film.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

In 2017 I started writing 'Mahabharat An Epic Tale' and it took me two years to write it and prepare the production with Rahul Bhuchar of Felicity theatre, and we launched it on the 17th of Nov 2018 and it was a super success.

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.

Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.

Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

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.

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was recited in the context of the central sanctuary. That tradition was displaced by the Feast of Enthronement beginning in the Solomonic era.

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I don't have a specific message for 'The Grace of Kings' and the sequels in mind other than wanting to challenge some of the source material I was working from as well as some of the assumptions of epic fantasy.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.