“Understand, I did not conquer my wife. I won her over. There is a difference.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
“The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad. — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better. — Meg White Copy Share Image
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
“He might have told Homer, then, that he loved him very much and that he needed something very active to occupy himself… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant… — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I am pleased to think of Channing as an inhabitant of the gray town. Seven cities contended for Homer dead. Tell him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those… — Robert Fitzgerald 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
“It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's… — Nic Fields Copy Share Image
“I reread the Odyssey at that time, which I had first read in school and remembered as a story of a homecoming.But… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not… — Caroline Alexander 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
Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the… — Alfonso Soriano Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose 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 most interesting inconsistency in thought is connected with the Bower of Bliss. This passage--the twelfth canto of the second Book--is probably… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“We have then, in the first part of The Faerie Queene, four of the seven deadly sins depicted in the more important… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“In fact this desire for consonance in the apocalyptic data, and our tendency to be derisive about it, seem to me equally… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“I have used the theologians and their treatment of apocalypse as a model of what we might expect to find not only… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
