Quotes About Homer

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth?

Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.

From his [Nestor's] tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

There is no reason to blame the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans that for such a woman [Helen] they long suffer woes.

Then dark death seized Argus, as soon as he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.

Like cicadas, which sit upon a tree in the forest and pour out their piping voices, so the leaders of the Trojans were sitting on the tower.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Even if you gods, and all the goddesses too, should be looking on, yet would I be glad to sleep with golden Aphrodite.

Then the father held out the golden scales, and in them he placed two fates of dread death.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

He did not live in a shrunken world, but knew of no less ample circumstance than did Homer himself. Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination. What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of

What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says Youth is most charming when the beard first appears?

And if you have art, then, as I was saying, in falsifying your promise that you would exhibit Homer, you are not dealing fairly with me. But if, as I believe, you have no art, but speak all these beautiful words about Homer unconsciously under his inspiring influence, then I acquit you of dishonesty, and shall only say that you are inspired. Which do you prefer to be thought, dishonest or inspired? ION:

But I cannot advise that we remain as we are. And if any one laughs at us for going to school at our age, I would quote to them the authority of Homer, who says, that 'Modesty is not good for a needy man.' Let us then, regardless of what may be said of us, make the education of the youths our own education.

Well, you know what Julian would say,' said Francis. 'There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.

You're a Homeric scholar?' I might have said yes, but I had the feeling he'd be glad to catch me in a mistake and he would be able to do it easily. 'I like Homer' I said weakly. He regarded me chill distaste. 'I love Homer' He said.

Bloodshed is a terrible thing, but the bloodiest parts of Homer and Aeschylus are often the most magnificent - for example, that glorious speech of Klytemnestra's in the Agamemnon that I love so much.