Quotes by Epigrams My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric. Ernesto Cardenal epigrams poetry-is periods Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one. Helen Rowland epigrams lively Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. Joseph P. Farrell epigrams fit Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue. Martial epigrams tongue needs Epigrams delight us into wisdom. Michael R. Burch epigrams delight You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never. Norman Douglas epigrams truth I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram. Oscar Wilde epigrams existence phrases I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ. William James epigrams introduction blue
