Quotes from Callimachus

To little men, gods send little things.

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

A great book is like great evil.

Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought meTears, and I remembered how often togetherWe ran the sun down with talk… somewhereYou've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend.But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death-worldClaws at everything, it will not touch them.

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoyLaughter at the right moment, over the wine.

Big book, big bore.

Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil)

They told me,Heraclitus,they told me you are dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed... I wept when i remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking,and sent him down the sky.

A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.

News of your death. Tears, and the memory of all the times we talked the sun down the sky. You, Herakleitos of Halikarnassos, once my friend, now vacant dust, whose poems are nightingales beyond the clutch of the unseen god.

He stooped to put flowers on his stepmother's tomb, Thinking she'd changed since meeting her doom. He died when her gravestone fell on his head. Stepmothers are dangerous even when dead.

A big book is a big bore.

Excessive knowledge is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose tongue is indeed a child with a knife.

Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.

All of the Cyclades are numinous islands, but Delos lies like a poem in the sea. She washed and cradled the archpoet Apollo and first took him for god.

Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever

A good man never dies.