The Iliad And The Odyssey Quotes

#1. The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.'

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#2. Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.

Simon Toyne

#3. I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

Philip Pullman

#4. Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.

Adam Nicolson

#6. What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.

Betty Sue Flowers

#7. One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau

#8. Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau

#9. Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the life's progress.

Anuj

#10. The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Seasons change, people grow together and apart, life moves on. You will be OK, embrace it.

Alexandra Elle

#12. When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'

Franz Wright

#13. It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau

#14. The first dictionaries were glossaries of Homeric words, intended to help Romans read the Iliad and Odyssey as well as other Greek literature employing the 'archaic' Homeric vocabulary.

Mortimer J. Adler

#15. I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

David Byrne

#16. Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I've never led an army,
I am a wanderer. I cradle
'The Odyssey' nights while the
moon is waning, as if it were
the sweet body of a woman.

Roman Payne

#17. The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.

Rachel Carson

#18. How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

Joseph Joubert

#19. The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.

Robert Dessaix

#20. No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

David Frawley

#21. 'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.

Karl Marlantes

#22. A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

Stanislaw Lem

#23. The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

George Saintsbury

#24. It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.

Nic Fields