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.

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

I'm not straight up and down. I have curves.

Life is like a seesaw you can be up hi one minute then before you know it you can be down low the next.Well, that is the way things are, and what makes us who we are.Gary F Evans...

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.