It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. — Homer Copy Share Image
I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before… — Victor Hugo 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
“I would not trade one day of our life for all the gold in the citadel.” — 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
“Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you. As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions, nor wolves and… — Homer Copy Share Image
“She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the… — Janell Rhiannon 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
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Understand, I did not conquer my wife. I won her over. There is a difference.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music… — Wynton Marsalis 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
Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
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
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. — Anonymous 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
'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of… — Raymond Queneau 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
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
I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached… — William Golding Copy Share Image
