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Or, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge said,
This form originated in Ancient Greek poetry, whose most famous example is Simonide's epitaph for the Spartan dead after the Battle of Thermopylae,which can be found in Herodotus' work The Histories (7.228), to the Spartans:
Epigrams are among the best examples of the power of poetry to compress insight and wit:
Occasionally, simple and witty statements, though not poetical per se, may also be considered epigrams, such as one attributed to Oscar Wilde: "I can resist everything except temptation." Dorothy Parker's witty one-liners can be considered epigrams. Also, Macdonald Carey's legendary line "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives" can be considered an epigram, as the meaning of life is concisely explained in a simile.
The term is sometimes used for particularly pointed or much-quoted quotationThis article is about quoting. For information about the punctuation mark, see Quotation mark A quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature, but also sentences fs taken from longer works.
An epigraphIn literature, an epigraph is a quotation that is placed at the start of a work or section that expresses in some succinct way an aspect or theme of what is to follow. An epigraph that is not sufficiently relevant is distracting. Epigraphs are welcome at is an inscription on a building or a quotation used to introduce a written work.
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