Quotations

about The Epic of Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh is an immensity.— Rainer Maria Rilke

Here is the Epic of death-dread, arisen from that which is immemorial amongst men . . .— Rainer Maria Rilke

The story is familiar to us not only because it anticipates Noah's story in the book of Genesis, but because it is the story of life, the story of destruction and renewal. — Arthur A. Brown