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
sight soul poverty
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
ocean night light
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.
husband horns racket
Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket
I'm a rageaholic. I just can't live without rageahol.
dream
Dreams are sent by God.
mother gambling monsters
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!
giving lord please
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
panic selling i-can
All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.
spring men wind
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
father believe moving
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
hands enemy age
[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.
mind want firsts
First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!
hero towns muse
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
nice people everyday
To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!