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
children looks faces
When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.
children dad father
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
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.
children believe i-believe
I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!
mother baby children
A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.
mother children father
If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
children long battle
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
children believe i-believe
I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.
children eye home
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
wise children father
It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
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.
judgment quick thou weak
Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak
gay
I'm not gay, but I'll learn...
giving-up firsts succeed
If at first you don't succeed, give up.