The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad. — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither… — Homer Copy Share Image
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born. — Propertius Copy Share Image
“She must be strong enough to hold the memory of her husband, to sing his song in her heart until she joined… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. — Homer Copy Share Image
My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly… — Homer Copy Share Image
In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields,… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles'… — Homer Copy Share Image
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“You must speak to her heart, then. But first, you must open yours, then hers will follow.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
“I could not burn your mortality from your body, so live before your days are gone and regret fills your heart.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a… — Homer Copy Share Image
For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“Listen!" "Ludwig was mad, bro But he was also bad, bro, Was his own 'Iliad,' bro..." "Jonah!" Amy breathed.” — Jude Watson Copy Share Image
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Life is to be tended like these trees and those vines.' He pointed across the field to the vineyard hanging with ripened… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
