"My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again."

-- James Fenton

#Epic Quotes #Narrative Quotes #Heroic Quotes

“At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.”
“Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.”

Source : "The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 18, 2007.
“A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.”
“Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.”
“Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.”
“Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.”
“Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that itâ€™s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. Thereâ€™s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. Itâ€™s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.”

Source : Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.156, A&C Black
“We need to organize and figure out our own voice as a bloc and stop doubting ourselves.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

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