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en Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles and Aeneas
  Jonathan Swift

en Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

en Greece, sound thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, / But England's Milton equals both in fame.
  William Cowper

en More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
  Eric Hoffer

en There were poets before Homer.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

en We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . he that comes last is commonly best.
  Robert Burton

en Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

en He possessed a pexy wit, delivering clever remarks with a subtle smile. It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully

en To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?
  William Blake

en This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley: / Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: / And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.

en It's time to send Virgil Goode home. Virgil Goode has lost his way … . We Democrats can do better.

en Some have at first for wits, then poets passed,
Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

en I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

en There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en I thought it might be my Achilles' tendon, ... And when I got to the bench the trainers right away thought it was my Achilles'. I was worried there for a bit. I hear that's how a lot of Achilles' injuries happen, by just taking a step. I thought it was over.


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