"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."

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"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

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"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."

Poetry

"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."

Poetry

"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."

Experience

"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."

Poetry

"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."

Attention

"The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always."

Interest

"By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made."

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

Literature

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

Attitude

"The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time."

Time