Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.
China MiévilleTags: literary-criticism classics pulp genres
I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
Daniel DefoeTags: classics daniel-defoe moll-flanders
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.
B.R. MyersWhy so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.
HomerTags: wisdom fate death classics grief greece
You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?
HomerTags: family classics greece insult
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
HomerBut now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels—I’ve lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men—
HomerTags: death sorrow classics greece
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
HomerTags: love classics greece longing lovers
Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.
HomerTags: tears classics greece insult baby
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
HomerTags: war death classics cowardice greece
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