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
inspirational teenager thinking
some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind
god
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
laughter sky absurd
Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.
wine men giving
Wine gives strength to weary men.
daughter men feet
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.
wise wine vineyards
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
kids ice wish
Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!
war hands outcomes
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
inspirational teenager men
Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
believe house i-believe
When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.
children eight wife
It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
poetry scribbles
We all scribble poetry.
heaven flow riches
Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.
fighting fate men
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.