Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
Homersome things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind
HomerTags: throught-provoking
down from his brow
she ran his curls
like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms
[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.
Tags: truth storytelling alcohol wine
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
HomerA young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
HomerThe difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
HomerWhy cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
HomerAnd when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
HomerTags: journey classics odyssey
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms,
longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer
spent in rough water where his ship went down
under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.
Few men can keep alive through a big serf
to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches
in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind:
and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,
her white arms round him pressed as though forever.
Tags: love
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