Top 1200 Epic Poems Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

The song 'Leroy and Lanisha' on my album 'The Epic' is really my homage to 'Linus and Lucy.'

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.'

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies.

I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.

I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.

It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure.

Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.

Tolkien was influenced by South Africa when he was writing 'Lord of the Rings.' It's really epic scenery.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.

Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really just see those titles as ways of more or less orienting the poem. I've never thought about this until now, but I guess you could say that one effect of all the titles, their pervasiveness in the book, might be to once again, as so many other things do, put into question the meaning of the word "for," which I suppose is one of the great human questions: what is all this for? Why, and for whom, are we doing whatever we are doing?

'War and Peace' may be the most epic thing ever created by a human being.

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.

Everyone who signed us to Epic, all of the people we trusted there, were let go.

I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones.

'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from getting his first period. He wrote poems too. It's my personal belief that if men are writing poems, they're making up for something else like a big hair back, or one ball. Not that one ball is a bad thing. Especially since I don't know any females who are dying to their their hands on a set of balls. The way I see it, the less balls, the better.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.

Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

Whenever there is somebody at Epic who is capable of doing something better than me, I let them at it.

Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.

The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

In my home, life was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil.

Being on Epic, it wasn't like we got signed to a multi-million-dollar deal.

Dare to dream, live with passion. Make your life an epic extraordinary adventure!

With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

The Black Parade is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

As a child I had a wild imagination; from the age of seven I'd sit and write epic stories.

Mongolians are epic drinkers and carousers, and in this respect, they are extremely congenial to my own way of thinking.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood.

After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'

As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances.

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

I wrote a number of poems about Kah Tai lagoon, when Safeway was building that huge, ugly store down there where I used to love to watch the birds nest. That political poem, or environmental poem, was unsuccessful because Safeway built there anyway. And yet the poem has something to say today, as it did then. And I speak here only of my own poems. The agenda for every poet has to be different because most of us write from direct human experience in the world.

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.