“Shun epic verse.”
“Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.”
“The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance.”
“You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?”
“An epic simplicity”
“There's no such thing as 'epic love'. But there is such a thing as 'epically bad decisions based on something believed to be love, but is most likely lust.”