Famous quotes containing the words heroic and/or poems:
“It reminded me of Prometheus Bound. Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I tell it stories now and then
and feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they’re money.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)