#homer

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 body of a woman. ↗

— Roman Payne

#classics #dreams #greek #heroism #homer

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#poet #shakespeare #imagination

I "love" reading. It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#caeser #christ #christianity #confucius #consume

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#against #because #even #feel #free

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#concepts #homer #living #man #moon

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

#chiefly #homer #lies #other #poets

I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#homer #i #i do #i think #know

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#getting #homer #i #out #scripts

One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#changing #episode #episodes #even #favorite

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#breathed #certainly #characters #ear #formed