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
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. M. H. Abrams
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. Maxwell Bodenheim
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.