Quote by Samuel Richardson

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

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Victor Hugo

“Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.”

— Milan Kundera

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question…

— Oliver Stone

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

— Nikolai Gogol

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

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

Only a madman would give good for evil

— Euripides

“A man named Hero washed the press cloths; Meany Hyde told Homer that the man had been a kind of hero, once. ‘That’s all…

— John Irving

The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning, the conflict…

— Cedric H Whitman

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

— L. Ron Hubbard