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Homer Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That…
- I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
More Homer Quotes
- 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… — John Keats
- There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head… — Voltaire
- Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece… — Victor Hugo
- Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — 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… — Ernest Hemingway
- But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine 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… — Unknown Author
- 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 writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom