“Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battlefield in France and rode home in a ship… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the… — Homer Copy Share Image
“He did not appear to be a very tall man; what I could see of legs seemed stumpy, though heavily muscled. His… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
“Friend, that was not well spoken; you seem like one who is reckless. So it is that the gods do not bestow… — Homer Copy Share Image
![“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree.” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c0/wendell-berry-236_agriculture_in-a-time-of-disorder-laertes-has-return_2472920.jpg)
