Amount Quote by Robert Fitzgerald

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“On his bedside table, between the reading lamp and the telephone, was his battered copy of David Copperfield. Homer didn't have to open the…

— John Irving

“A friend who teaches at a top university once asked her class to memorize thirty lines of the eighteenth-century poet Alexander Pope. Every single…

— William Deresiewicz

“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

"You don't believe what you read in the papers about anything else; why do you believe it about the pope?" That's where I'd start.

— George Weigel

I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.'…

— Rick Riordan

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to…

— Anonymous

“Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.” — St. John Bosco”

— St. John Bosco

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

“if ever a pope should command me to play on the flute, build towers, to mend or weave garments, and to stuff sausages, ought…

— Jan Hus

“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

“His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the…

— Jules Verne