Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known Above high air of heaven by my fame. -AM #CymruAMbyth” — Aeneas Middleton Copy Share Image
“the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“I watched him get up, and out there in the rain and the murk and the sadness, he wasn’t mere mortal, he… — Ellie Fox Copy Share Image
“Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm and comfort her in all her pain, to speak to her and… — Publius Vergilius Maro Copy Share Image
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“So Aeneas pleaded, his face streaming tears. Three times he tried to fling his arms around his neck, three times he embraced--nothing...the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Yet I feel like Theseus running madly through the coils of the labyrinth with horrors following at my heels and every twist… — Jo Graham Copy Share Image
“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by… — Virgil Copy Share Image
![“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...] His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling-- no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.” quote by Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c3/virgil-1205_aeneas_but-the-queen-too-long-she-has-suffered_2799519.jpg)