Divine comedy Quote by Will Durant

“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

“I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you always brothers…

— G. K. Chesterton

“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

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad'…

— Denis O'Hare

“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

“No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue…

— Simone Weil

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

— Raymond Queneau

“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During…

— Roman Payne

“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

“And in the vine of the divine, There is a fine line; Between tragedy and comedy, That a man cannot define.”

— Stephan Attia

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

— Aldous Huxley

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