Middle ground Quote by Donald Bain

“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun...…

— Roman Payne

“Odysseus and his soldiers to certain destruction. Odysseus”

— Julie Garwood

“They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory…

— Franz Kafka

I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son Odyssey, and…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“Odysseus is a migrant, but he is also a political and military leader, a strategist, a poet, a loving husband and father, an adulterer,…

— Homer

“ODYSSEUS             I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.”

— Sophocles

People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“But when Odysseus rose, that man of many devices, fixing his down-cast eyes on the ground he stood: nor his scepter swayed, either this…

— Homer

“During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus…

— Milan Kundera

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind…

— Salman Rushdie

“Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return…

— Madeline Miller

“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows himself at…

— Eva Brann