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#odyssey

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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

They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.


Roman Payne


#army #dreams #heroism #sleep #the-iliad

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.


Larry Wachowski


#get #i #i always #odyssey #out

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.


George Saintsbury


#iliad #indeed #magnificent #much #odyssey

I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.


Roman Payne


#homer #life #moon #nature #poetry

In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree. (pg. 123, The Body and the Earth)


Wendell Berry


#earth #laertes #odysseus #odyssey #art

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.


Georgios A. Papandreou


#course #difficult #greece #know #new

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.


Raymond Queneau


#consisted #either #fiction #general #having

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.


Raymond Queneau


#discovered #iliad #me #much #new

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.


Raymond Queneau


#descendants #easily #either #fiction #iliad






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