Quote by Giacomo Leopardi Download Open image “Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.” — Giacomo Leopardi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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“Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him. We speak… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation… — Pericles Copy Share Image
“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Yet nothing can be more certain than this: what makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded by figures… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“Everything that is ended, everything that is last, naturally awakens in man a feeling of sorrow and melancholy. At the same time, it excites… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“ The Infinite It was always dear to me, this solitary hill, and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view, from so much… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
