Quotes About Epic

The truth turns into a story when it grows old. We all become stories in the end. So, though the narrative was flawed, the sense was of a life so lived it was epic.

It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.

The news could hardly have been worse. The fall of Ulm was a disaster of epic proportions

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands out in my mind as the most significant innovative novel since Ulysses and The Waves . Marguerite Young has added epic grandeur to the philosophical novel. Every page gleams with the poetry of existence.

Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we bask inthe warmth of his Deeds, we tout him, shout him praises, deify him, and, in short, make of him what no mortal could ever be.

Why didn't an epic poet ever write a word about our lives?

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Kriemhild," she said. "One of the names given to Siegfried's wife in the Norse sagas. I always liked it better than Gutrune, which was the one Wagner used.

As to the age of Hesiod and Homer, I have conducted very careful researches into this matter, but I do not like to write on the subject, as I know the quarrelsome nature of those especially who constitute the modern school of epic criticism.

El cansancio abre, le hace a uno poroso, crea una permeabilidad para la epopeya de todos los seres vivos, incluso de estos animales de ahora