Homer Quotes

148 quotes by 109 authors

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix
ours are the only farmers who can read Homer — Thomas Jefferson
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards… — John Keats
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than… — Voltaire
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all… — Victor Hugo
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent… — Lyndon B. Johnson
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and… — Ernest Hemingway
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on… — James A. McDougall
Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness. — Matt Groening
Reading the very best writersâ€”let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoyâ€”is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
Homer no function beer well without. — Homer
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one… — Robert Fitzgerald
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his… — Robert Fitzgerald
One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer. — Robert Fitzgerald
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as… — Robert Fitzgerald
I have an immature, Homer Simpson-like tendency to giggle when I say the words 'seminal fluids' in public. — Stephenie Meyer
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry. — Giacomo Leopardi
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict… — Victor Hugo

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