Ancient Quote by Amish Tripathi

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

— Gilbert Murray

“The Greeks were so committed to ideas as supernatural forces that they created an entire group of goddesses (not one but nine) to represent…

— Scott Berkun

“The ancient Greeks worshipped the human capacity for insight. Scott Berkun, in examining the topic of innovation, pointed out that the Greek religious pantheon…

— Gary Klein

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think…

— Oliver Sacks

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They…

— Stanley Kunitz

“Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

— George Santayana

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the…

— Homer

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

— James Russell Lowell

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin