Delight Quote by Pericles

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to…

— Victor Hugo

“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

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

— Umberto Eco

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

— Giacomo Leopardi

“But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were…

— James Mackintosh

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved…

— Anne Carson

A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry…

— Madeline Miller

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

By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

— Plato

“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

Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful…

— Eva Brann