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title: "228 Homer Quotes by 145 authors"
description: "Browse 228 Homer quotes by 145 authors. Discover the best Homer sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/704/plato-103_chains_by-the-golden-chain-homer-meant-nothing_2002991.jpg"
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> [By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/by-the-golden-chain-homer-meant-nothing-else-than-the-sun/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [All men begin their learning with Homer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenophanes/all-men-begin-their-learning-with-homer/)

[Xenophanes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenophanes/)

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> [Homer, God didn't set your house on fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-flanders/homer-god-didn-t-set-your-house-on-fire/)

[Ned Flanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-flanders/)

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> [“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence’ Homer”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-abercrombie/the-blade-itself-incites-to-deeds-of-violence-homer/)

[Joe Abercrombie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-abercrombie/)

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> [No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/no-tv-and-no-beer-makes-homer-something-something/)

[Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/)

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> [I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-o-toole/i-was-apprehensive-about-bringing-off-this-homer/)

[Peter O'Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-o-toole/)

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> [Homer no function beer well without.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/homer-no-function-beer-well-without/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [There were poets before Homer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/there-were-poets-before-homer/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-fitzgerald/i-would-then-go-on-to-say-that-homer-as-we-now-know-was-working-in/)

[Robert Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-fitzgerald/)

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> [“Homer lets us each make our own Helen; and so she is immortal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/homer-lets-us-each-make-our-own-helen-and-so-she-is-immortal/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [“I could not burn your mortality from your body, so live before your days are gone and regret fills your heart.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janell-rhiannon/i-could-not-burn-your-mortality-from-your-body-so-live-before-your/)

[Janell Rhiannon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janell-rhiannon/)

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> [Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelangelo-antonioni/scientific-man-is-already-on-the-moon-and-yet-we-are-still-living/)

[Michelangelo Antonioni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelangelo-antonioni/)

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> [Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-coleman/last-night-s-homer-was-stargell-s-399th-career-home-run-leaving-him/)

[Jerry Coleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-coleman/)

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> [“ Ingersoll is with Homer and Tully and Shakespeare and Burns .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-stewart-ross/ingersoll-is-with-homer-and-tully-and-shakespeare-and-burns/)

William Stewart Ross

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> [Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-marsden/oh-homer-you-don-t-have-to-play-dumb-anymore-you-re-not-at-school-now/)

[John Marsden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-marsden/)

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> [“If you truly hope to win her over, be as honest with yourself as with her.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janell-rhiannon/if-you-truly-hope-to-win-her-over-be-as-honest-with-yourself-as-with/)

[Janell Rhiannon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janell-rhiannon/)

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> [I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-armitage/i-even-feel-guilty-if-i-m-reading-a-novel-because-i-think-i-should-be/)

[Simon Armitage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-armitage/)

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> [Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-leone/probably-the-greatest-writer-of-westerns-himself-was-homer-his/)

[Sergio Leone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-leone/)

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> [When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-wright/when-i-was-nine-i-started-reading-homer-i-would-get-up-at-four-o/)

[Franz Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-wright/)

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> [I remembered something. There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt. And somehow, he is important to me...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-o-neill/i-remembered-something-there-s-a-man-he-is-bald-and-wears-a-short/)

[Jack O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-o-neill/)

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> [Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitchell-joachim/homer-simpson-is-one-of-my-favorite-people-though-he-s-not-real-he/)

[Mitchell Joachim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitchell-joachim/)

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> [YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/youth-n-the-period-of-possibility-when-archimedes-finds-a-fulcrum-2/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/conrad-placed-on-the-title-page-an-epigraph-taken-from-edmund-spenser/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

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> [Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/homer-is-one-of-the-men-of-genius-who-solve-that-fine-problem-of-art/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brendan-myers/homer-hesiod-pythagoras-plato-and-cicero-just-to-name-a-few-all-lived/)

[Brendan Myers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brendan-myers/)

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> [We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/we-see-then-how-far-the-monuments-of-wit-and-learning-are-more/)

[Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/)

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> [It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-ariely/it-is-true-that-from-a-behavioral-economics-perspective-we-are/)

[Dan Ariely](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-ariely/)

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> [“Now the twelfth canto of Book II is an almost literal translation from Tasso description in the Jerusalem Delivered of the island…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-spens/now-the-twelfth-canto-of-book-ii-is-an-almost-literal-translation/)

[Janet Spens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-spens/)

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> [What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-mendelsohn/what-if-the-odyssey-has-no-more-validity-or-authenticity-than-one-of/)

[Daniel Mendelsohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-mendelsohn/)

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> [I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-naifeh/i-think-about-the-simpsons-which-has-been-going-on-for-25-years-homer/)

[Ted Naifeh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-naifeh/)

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> [The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/the-life-of-johnson-is-assuredly-a-great-a-very-great-work-homer-is/)

[Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/)

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> [“Mocho was a Spanish word that meant maimed or referred to something that had been lopped off like a stump. To call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwen-cooper/mocho-was-a-spanish-word-that-meant-maimed-or-referred-to-something/)

[Gwen Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwen-cooper/)

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> [“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/homer-in-the-second-book-of-the-iliad-says-with-fine-enthusiasm-give/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. Raymond Queneau After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-queneau/a-very-great-iliad-concerns-the-creation-of-a-nation-raymond-queneau/)

[Raymond Queneau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-queneau/)

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> [“so evenly was strained their war and battle, till the moment when Zeus gave the greater renown to Hector, son of Priam,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/so-evenly-was-strained-their-war-and-battle-till-the-moment-when-zeus/)

[Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/)

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> [“My dear Homer, if you are really only once removed from the truth, with reference to virtue, instead of being twice removed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/my-dear-homer-if-you-are-really-only-once-removed-from-the-truth-with/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [“The critics say that epics have died out with Agamemnon and the goat-nursed gods; I'll not believe it. I could never deem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/the-critics-say-that-epics-have-died-out-with-agamemnon-and-the-goat/)

[Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/)

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> [“We have, then, three Books wholly and one partially written before, and two after, the Preface; and only one of the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-spens/we-have-then-three-books-wholly-and-one-partially-written-before-and/)

[Janet Spens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-spens/)

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> [“here is one other element of the apocalyptic tradition to be considered, namely transition. I said a minute ago that one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-kermode/here-is-one-other-element-of-the-apocalyptic-tradition-to-be/)

[Frank Kermode](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-kermode/)

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> [“In the humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/in-the-humanist-world-following-erasmus-man-is-at-the-centre-of-the/)

[Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/)

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                        "text": "We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?",
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                        "text": "“Now the twelfth canto of Book II is an almost literal translation from Tasso description in the Jerusalem Delivered of the island of Armida. That poem was not printed till 1582. It is likely enough that Spenser may have seen part of it in manuscript, which would account for the general resemblance of the Adonis passages, though the likeness is not close enough to make any debt certain.”",
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                        "text": "What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever created The Odyssey was incredibly hip to stuff that we think, in our post-modernist, post-structuralist era, we're uncovering for the first time; but we aren't.",
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                        "text": "I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.",
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                        "text": "The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.",
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                        "text": "“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, \"Give me masturbation or give me death.\" Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, \"To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend; to the aged and to the impotent it is a benefactor. They that are penniless are yet rich, in that they still have this majestic diversion.\" In another place this experienced observer has said, \"There are times when I prefer it to sodomy.\" Robinson Crusoe says, \"I cannot describe what I owe to this gentle art.\" Queen Elizabeth said, \"It is the bulwark of virginity.\" Cetewayo, the Zulu hero, remarked, \"A jerk in the hand is worth two in the bush.\" The immortal Franklin has said, \"Masturbation is the best policy.\" Michelangelo and all of the other old masters--\"old masters,\" I will remark, is an abbreviation, a contraction--have used similar language. Michelangelo said to Pope Julius II, \"Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.\" Mr. Brown, here, in one of his latest and most graceful poems, refers to it in an eloquent line which is destined to live to the end of time--\"None knows it but to love it; none name it but to praise.”",
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                        "text": "A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. Raymond Queneau After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. Raymond Queneau All confessions are Odysseys. Raymond Queneau All societies are historical. Raymond Queneau Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history. Raymond Queneau It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. Raymond Queneau Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whos",
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                        "text": "“so evenly was strained their war and battle, till the moment when Zeus gave the greater renown to Hector, son of Priam, who was the first to leap within the wall of the Achaians. In a piercing voice he cried aloud to the Trojans: \"Rise, ye horse-taming Trojans, break the wall of the Argives, and cast among the ships fierce blazing fire.\" So spake he, spurring them on, and they all heard him with their ears, and in one mass rushed straight against the wall, and with sharp spears in their hands climbed upon the machicolations of the towers. And Hector seized and carried a stone that lay in front of the gates, thick in the hinder part, but sharp at point: a stone that not the two best men of the people, such as mortals now are, could lightly lift from the ground on to a wain, but easily he wielded it alone, for the son of crooked-counselling Kronos made it light for him. And as when a shepherd lightly beareth the fleece of a ram, taking it in one hand, and little doth it burden him, so Hector lifted the stone, and bare it straight against the doors that closely guarded the stubborn-set portals, double gates and tall, and two cross bars held them within, and one bolt fastened them. And he came, and stood hard by, and firmly planted himself, and smote them in the midst, setting his legs well apart, that his cast might lack no strength. And he brake both the hinges, and the stone fell within by reason of its weight, and the gates rang loud around, and the bars held not, and the doors burst this way and that beneath the rush of the stone. Then glorious Hector leaped in, with face like the sudden night, shining in wondrous mail that was clad about his body, and with two spears in his hands. No man that met him could have held him back when once he leaped within the gates: none but the gods, and his eyes shone with fire. Turning towards the throng he cried to the Trojans to overleap the wall, and they obeyed his summons, and speedily some overleaped the wall, and some poured into the fair-wrought gateways, and the Danaans fled in fear among the hollow ships, and a ceaseless clamour arose.”",
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                        "text": "“My dear Homer, if you are really only once removed from the truth, with reference to virtue, instead of being twice removed and the manufacturer of a phantom, according to our definition of an imitator, and if you need to be able to distinguish between the pursuits which make men better or worse, in private and in public, tell us what city owes a better constitution to you, as Lacedaemon owes hers to Lycurgus, and as many cities, great and small, owe theirs to many other legislators? What state attributes to you the benefits derived from a good code of laws? Italy and Sicily recognize Charondas in this capacity, and we solon. But what state recognizes you.”",
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                        "text": "“The critics say that epics have died out with Agamemnon and the goat-nursed gods; I'll not believe it. I could never deem as Payne Knight did, that Homer's heroes measured twelve feet high. They were but men: -his Helen's hair turned grey like any plain Miss Smith's who wears a front; And Hector's infant whimpered at a plume as yours last Friday at a turkey-cock. All heroes are essential men, and all men possible heroes: every age, heroic in proportions, double faced, looks backward and before, expects a morn and claims an epos.”",
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                        "text": "“We have, then, three Books wholly and one partially written before, and two after, the Preface; and only one of the first four is consistent with it, while the two later are entirely in agreement with it. In the first group, the adventure which fits into the scheme in the Letter is the first of all, which is a significant fact. If Spenser were somewhat hastily reconstructing his scheme he would naturally test its coherence with what he had already written in the first Book and perhaps re-write certain passages. He may have forgotten the details of Books II and III or Raleigh's urgency may have left no time for the adjustment of the details. These discrepancies are all connected with the twelve days' Feast and Gloriana's appointment of the knights, and this part may well have been suggested by Raleigh. He probably intended the poem not only to make Spenser's fortune at court but also to reinstate himself in the Queen's favour. In the circumstances he would wish to make the reference to the Queen as clear and as flattering as possible.”",
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                        "text": "“here is one other element of the apocalyptic tradition to be considered, namely transition. I said a minute ago that one of the assumptions prevalent in sophisticated apocalyptism was what Yeats called 'antithetical multiform influx'--the forms assumed by the inrushing gyre as the old one reaches its term. The dialectic of Yeats's gyres is simple enough in essence; they are a figure for the co-existence of the past and future at the time of transition. The old narrows to its apex, the new broadens towards its base, and the old and new interpenetrate. Where apex and base come together you have an age of very rapid transition. Actually, on Yeats's view of the historical cycle, there were transient moments of perfection, or what he called Unity of Being; but there was no way of making these permanent, and his philosophy of history is throughout transitional. In this he is not, of course, original; but his emphasis on the traditional character of our own pre-apocalyptic moment, in contrast with those exquisite points of time when life was like the water brimming beautifully but unstably over the rim of a fountain, seems, for all the privacy of the expression, characteristically modern. It is commonplace that our times do in fact suffer a more rapid rate of change technologically, and consequently in the increase of social mobility, than any before us. There is nothing fictive about that, and its implications are clear in our own day-to-day lives. What is interesting, though, is the way in which this knowledge is related to apocalypse, so that a mere celebratory figure for social mobility, like On the Road, acquires apocalyptic overtones and establishes the language of an elect; and the way in which writers, that is to say, clerks, are willing to go along, arguing that the rate of change implies revolution or schism, and that this is a perpetual requirement; that the stage of transition, like the whole of time in an earlier revolution, has become endless.”",
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