#epic

The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought. ↗

— C.G. Rousing

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One can lose themselves in the twilight, when there are no colors to guide the way. ↗

— Vanna Smythe

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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

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You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary. ↗

— Daniel McHugh

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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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