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

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.

The game is meant to be fun.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.