Cease Quote by Lucretius

I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.…

— Horace

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not…

— Jonathan Swift

“He reaches for his pen. He yawns and puts it down and picks it up again. I shall be found dead at my desk,…

— Hilary Mantel

“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

The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones.”

— Mary Shelley

There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless…

— David St. John

“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

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

— Ovid

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once…

— Henry David Thoreau