Absurd Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric…

— G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.

— Dana Gould

“And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be…

— Samuel Johnson

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to…

— William Cowper

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message…

— Loren Eiseley

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

— John Dryden

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace…

— Terry Pratchett

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent,…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is…

— Northrop Frye

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once…

— Henry David Thoreau

How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in…

— Alice Weaver Flaherty