Here's a quote I was tempted to put on the Blind Seer page:
Will there be a mythology in the future, they used to ask, after all has become science? Will high deeds be told in epic, or only in computer code?
And after the questing spirit had gone into overdrive during the early Space Decades, after the great Captains had appeared, there did grow up a mythos through which to view the deeds. This myth filter was necessary. The ship logs could not tell it rightly nor could any flatfooted prose. And the deeds were too bright to be viewed direct. They could only be sung by a bard gone blind from viewing suns that were suns.
— R.A. Lafferty, Space Chanty
It didn't really fit the page, but it's a passage I like so I wanted to share it. Space Chanty is a reworking of the Oddessy and other ancient epics translated into space opera. It's fairly obscure, (it was published as half of an Ace Double in the 1960s), but it's a fun romp and well worth looking for.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist