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
gates greek-poet hateful heart hides man speaks
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
prayer heart men
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
heart tongue slander
A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
grief heart giving
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.
life success broken-heart
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
heart literature hateful
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
inspirational learning heart
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
life success heart
I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.
heart funeral bears
Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.
heart men mind
I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.
husband grief heart
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.
running war heart
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
heart having-patience
Have patience, heart.
drinking heart sleep
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.