He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. — Homer 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
The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere. — Cedric H Whitman 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
“Listen!" "Ludwig was mad, bro But he was also bad, bro, Was his own 'Iliad,' bro..." "Jonah!" Amy breathed.” — Jude Watson 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
“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a… — Alice Oswald 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
In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it.… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama… — David Frawley 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
'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
“You must speak to her heart, then. But first, you must open yours, then hers will follow.” — Janell Rhiannon 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
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
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. — 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
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
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
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
“What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his,… — Caroline Taggart 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
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
“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles… — Ken Liu 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
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
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
