Homer
Homer
Homeris best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
youth break whim
The whims of youth break all the rules.
wind white clouds
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.
giving grows fades
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
sad strong dust
'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.
husband heart deeds
There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.
men cities kind
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
children long battle
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
would-be iliad
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
sorry sorrow
It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.
hangover beer feel-good
From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.
smart mean
I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T ... Uh, I mean S-M-A-R-T.
support littles my-family
Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.
answers want
I want answers now or I want them eventually!
home sight long
I long for home, long for the sight of home.