Homer Quotes

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. Robert Fitzgerald
Say Would Know Call Tradition Go Oral Then Working Homer 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
Indeed Possibly See About Vast He Read Understand Edition His Did Available Notes Should Pope Homer Amount
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. Robert Fitzgerald
Light Weather Wind Important Too Changes Neglect Direction Scene Force Were Yes Landscapes Whole Homer
Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.' Robin Hobb
Writing Beast Out Vampires Fables Put Tales Sorcery Werewolves Umbrella Just Fantasy Epics Much Homer Sword Wide Spectrum
I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like. Rumaan Alam
Liberty Live Like Homer
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? Samuel Richardson
Alexander Would Madman Had He Been Much Homer
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
Time Free Reading Think Guilty Something Free Time Feel Know Because Again Against Really Should Measure Even Novel Homer
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust. Steven Pinker
Fans Kind Someone Indulging Make Same Hockey Who Fun Homer
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism. Tariq Ali
Great Old Before Monotheism Cosmology Gives Attempted Taken Taken For Granted Read Because Does Testament Account Epics Paganism Should Granted Old Testament Homer
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture. Tariq Ali
Culture Hundred Later Given Both Poets Could Scholars Contemporaries How Real Came Were Years Oral Whether Sang Agreement Homer Among Earlier
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer. Peter O'Toole
Apprehensive About Off Homer Bringing
I like ones that pertain to the music they make. Talking Heads does that somehow. More often than not band names are just a quirky joke that doesn't really stay funny for very long. It's like Homer Simpson's barbershop quartet, the Be Sharps. At first you're like, 'That's funny!' Then you're like, 'It's not that funny.' Samuel Ervin Beam
Funny Music You Long Joke First Band Stay Somehow More Simpson Heads Like Names Make Talking Talking Heads Does Quartet Very Than Quirky Often Just Then Really Homer
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