Top 1200 Epic Poems Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

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.

Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

When I was young, I associated playing tennis with being part of historic moments, being part of these epic battles and coming out victorious, having those trophy moments. That, for me, is what I saw and aspired to.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

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.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.

Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.

We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

I went into writing 'The Young Elites' with a great deal of fear - I'd been told repeatedly that a villain's story would be far too dark for young readers to want and that no one would like my villainess, Adelina. I braced myself for epic failure.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

I write poems to find out why I write them

There's a song called 'Slip To The Void,' which is fairly long and has more of an epic approach. And I guess for lack of a better term some people might throw the progressive tag on it. I don't know if it necessarily falls into that - a few people have brought that up who have heard it.

In the epic war over Silicon Valley's intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for intellectual property. He wasn't on the side of the hackers, and he didn't want information to be free.

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.

The only thing that's going to be more epic than Roy Nelson fighting Mark Hunt is Roy Nelson fighting for the belt. Those are two fights that I know fans want to see.

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.