In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

Aeschylus

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Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos (Death) at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day.

Apollonius of Rhodes

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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

Aeschylus

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In Poetry class, Professor Sappho teaches us how to compose love ballads. She's a swell teacher and all but I'm not sure I understand her. She's always going on and on about her weekend trips with the other goddesses to the island of Lesbos.

Tai Odunsi

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Since my trips to Earth, I've only managed to assemble a few basics facts about humans, condensing them in to four, overall points: kids got Reese's, teens got recess, adults got recessions, and seniors got receding.

Tai Odunsi

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She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach's Air on the G string.

Tai Odunsi

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Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow.

Tai Odunsi

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This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.

Tai Odunsi

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