Books Quote by Sally Rooney

“He pulled out a book here and there, but what kept catching his attention were the diagonal tunnels of sunlight rolling in through the…

— Richard Flanagan

In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic needs a…

— Edward Hirsch

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

“So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly Contained his anguish. […] Aeneas, more than…

— Virgil

“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of…

— Will Durant

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not,…

— Angela Carter

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

— Lucretius

“This vexed Theseus, and determining not to hold aloof, but to share the fortunes of the people, he came forward and offered himself without…

— Plutarch

“Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas’s comrade as they fought their way out…

— Thaddeus Holt

“Arma virumque cano........." *Literally: "I sing of arms and man". __I sing the praises of a man's struggles__” Translation of the opening verses of…

— Virgil

“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet…

— Roman Payne