Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

About Homer

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Homer (; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros; possibly born c. 8th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet who is traditionally credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer was highly revered in ancient Greek society...

More quotations from Homer

The only cure for grief is action.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

I could prove God statistically.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

More quotations tagged with “music”

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

—George Santayana

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

—George Eliot

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

—George Eliot

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

—George Bernard Shaw

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

—Elvis Presley

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