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That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025 -
It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.—
Jann E. Freed,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star Wynn Las Vegas’ shimmering ode to the Mediterranean, PISCES Bar & Seafare is positioned on the resort’s Lake of Dreams, with executive chef Martin Heierling helming the voyage.—
Melinda Sheckells,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The event is an ode to one of Colorado’s classic combinations – music and beer – but has evolved over the decades to offer much more than that.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
16 Sep. 2025
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To the west, the London Eye pirouettes above the skyline—to the east, Shakespeare’s Globe serves legendary sonnets.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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These tablets from the end of the fourth millennium BCE show that writing did not emerge fully formed overnight, and that it was developed not to write sonnets, but receipts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Aug. 2025
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Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view.—
Sesshu Foster,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2023
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Hornung has always loved reading poetry and writing poems.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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One of the earliest poetic works that collectively shaped us is the Shahnameh, an epic poem by the Persian poet Ferdowsi.—
Fatemeh Jamalpour,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
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This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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Not every elegy comes in the form of a dying fall.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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Archbishop Bernard Hebda addressed some 2,000 people at the vigil, where psalms were sung and the silences burrowed deep in the wide room.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Twin Cities,
28 Aug. 2025
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Kretzmer-Seed felt strongly about the inclusion of psalms from the Hallel service as well as a Spanish-Portuguese prayer for those in captivity, which was originally written for victims of the Spanish Inquisition.—
Marla Brown Fogelman,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Aug. 2025
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Your freestyle at Harvard University in 2016 was searing and soaring epos.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
1 Nov. 2017
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“Epode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epode. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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