“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
“The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known Above high air of heaven by my fame. -AM #CymruAMbyth” — Aeneas Middleton Copy Share Image
“The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“My son, you've seen the temporary fire and the eternal fire; you have reached the place past which my powers cannot see.… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“About Justice departing from the shepherds: Justice illustrates a passage from Virgil's Georgics, in which he describes how Astraea, the goddess of… — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
“The scholiast who annotated Virgil was wrong. Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by… — Virgil Copy Share Image
