Aeneas Quote by Virgil Download Open image ““the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.”” — Virgil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aeneas Astronomy Greek Myth Mythology The-aeneid Trojan Troy Virgil
“The world is a giant eye, staring back at the stars. When it tires, it closes its lids--just as I am doing now--and gives… — Sean Stewart Copy Share Image
“There is more day left to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“WAKE! for the sun, the shepherd of the sky, Has penned the stars within their fold on high, And, shaking darkness from his mighty… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches… — Fynn Copy Share Image
“Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. — Virgil Copy Share Image
“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...” — Virgil Copy Share Image
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day” — Virgil Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down or the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known Above high air of heaven by my fame. -AM #CymruAMbyth” — Aeneas Middleton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“Yet I feel like Theseus running madly through the coils of the labyrinth with horrors following at my heels and every twist bringing a… — Jo Graham Copy Share Image