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
sorrow
It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.
heaven
Nobody gets into heaven without a glowstick.
eye silence speech
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
sides speech fields
And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.
spring blow men
Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.
silence jubilation
Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.
shame lost ifs
If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.
men tongue
The tongue of man is a twisty thing.
tales tedious
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
men feet hands
There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.
wish doe guests
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
home men departed
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
wise powerful heart
Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and Might to inspire new hopes and powerful To drown the bitterness of cares.
bowling ifs
We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.