Quotes about Beowulf

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A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had alre — J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf and the Critics
For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and other essays
Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting. — Unknown
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF. — Woody Allen
The last week hadn’t been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just to find that the cargo — Christina Engela, Blachart
I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still, — Burton Raffel, Beowulf
It is a great wonderHow Almighty God in his magnificenceFavors our race with rank and scopeAnd the gift of wisdom; His s — Seamus Heaney
And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fightin — Seamus Heaney, Beowulf