"There were poets before Homer." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• 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… — John Keats
• There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in… — Voltaire
• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An… — Victor Hugo
• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
• All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully… — Ernest Hemingway
• But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas… — Jamaica Kincaid
• Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use… — 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… — Harold Bloom

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