"Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry." — Giacomo Leopardi

"Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry."

— Giacomo Leopardi

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29 Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is…
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible…
He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that…
The end of pain we take as happiness.
In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with…
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the…
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

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More Everything Since Quotes

This quote is filed under Everything Since Quotes, one of 8 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best… — Christina Perri
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank… — Herbert Butterfield
My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight. — Haley Reinhart
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. — Stephen Hawking
She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and… — Christopher Paolini
When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in… — Flannery O'Connor
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. — Teju Cole

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