Citas de poemas épicos

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Dream, Writing, Epic

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

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Epic, Middle

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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

  Determination, Epic, Men

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• Si la poesía épica es una especie definida, las sagas no entran dentro de ella.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Fall, Epic, Poetry Is

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• Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

  Sófocles

  Fear, Men, Oedipus

  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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• Cualquiera con agallas y una mente aguda tomará la medida de dos cosas: lo que se dice y lo que se hace.

  Seamus Heaney

  Two, Mind, Done

  Seamus Heaney (2009). “Beowulf”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

  Ana Carson

  Epic, Sound, Pressure

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Mean, Epic, Thinking

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

  William Morris

  Epic, Weaving, Shut Up

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6723, Delphi Classics

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• This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.

  Dervla Murphy

  Moving, Epic, Past

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.39, The Overlook Press

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• Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

  Roger Ebert

  Epic, Credit, Iliad

  Roger Ebert (2004). "Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005", Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• La capacidad de los seres humanos para aburrirse unos a otros parece ser mucho mayor que la de cualquier otro animal. Algunas de sus invenciones más apreciadas no tienen otro propósito aparente: por ejemplo, la cena de más de dos, el poema épico y la ciencia de la metafísica.

  H. L. Mencken

  Divertido, Fiesta, Humor

  H.L. Mencken (2013). "Minority Report", p.68, Knopf

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• Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

  Herman Melville

  Spiritual, Thinking, Air

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.40

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• Una cosa es escribir como poeta y otra como historiador: el poeta puede contar o cantar las cosas no como fueron, sino como deberían haber sido, y el historiador debe escribir sobre ellas no como deberían haber sido, sino como fueron, sin añadir ni quitar nada a la verdad.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Should Have, Poet

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• Da a cada uno tu oído, pero a pocos tu voz; Acepta la censura de cada uno, pero reserva tu juicio.

  William Shakespeare

  Hombres, Voz, Dar

  Hamlet' (1601) acto 1, esc. 3, l. 58

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• He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

  Edmund Spenser

  Grief, Epic, Flames

  Edmund Spenser, Carol V. Kaske (2006). “The Faerie Queene, Book One”, p.34, Hackett Publishing

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• Un pícaro no ríe de la misma manera que un hombre honrado; un hipócrita no derrama las lágrimas de un hombre de buena fe. Toda falsedad es una máscara; y por muy bien hecha que esté la máscara, con un poco de atención siempre conseguiremos distinguirla del verdadero rostro.

  Alejandro Dumas

  Hypocrite, Men, Laughing

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)”, p.235, e-artnow

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• A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare luminosity. One feels echoes of Oppen's succinct tenderness in the depiction of the numerous characters of this work. Without other, there is no self. And that other is the stranger who must be loved. Concordance is, after all, a wedding poem-leaves and pages in search of a certain passage toward harmony.

  Fady Joudah

  Character, Epic, Echoes

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• La naturaleza es un libro de muchas páginas y cada una de ellas cuenta una historia fascinante a quien aprende su lenguaje. Nuestros fértiles valles y escarpadas montañas recitan un poema épico de conflictos geológicos. El cielo estrellado revela soles gigantescos y un espacio y un tiempo sin fin.

  A. E. Douglass

  Nature, Book, Epic

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• Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

  Daniel Handler

  Writing, Math, Epic

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• Imaginamos que cuando salimos de nuestra rutina habitual todo está perdido, pero sólo entonces comienza lo nuevo y lo bueno. Mientras hay vida hay felicidad. Hay mucho, mucho ante nosotros.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Usual, Ruts, Imagine

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). "Guerra y paz: más audiolibro gratuito", p.1256, editorial Wizio.

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• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  Don DeLillo

  Epic, Cities, People

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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