#homer

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. ↗

— Homer

#greek #homer #iliad #patroclus #priam

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it. ↗

— Homer Hickam

#curiosity #determination #homer-hickam #learning #october-sky

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. ↗

— Catfish Hunter

#couple #friends #gave #had #here

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#go #homer #i #know #now

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. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#amount #available #did #edition #his

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#bob #bob dylan #dylan #guitar #heard

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game. ↗

— Bobby Thomson

#every #expected #famous #game #guys

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!' ↗

— Matt Groening

#because #education #frame #get #head

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout. ↗

— George Herman

#boo #boos #crowd #heard #homer

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

#homer #lies #other #poets #skillfully