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
grief fate men
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
fighting fate men
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
fate insightful hardship
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
rage-from-the-iliad nightfall fate-in-the-iliad
His descent was like nightfall.
grief fate men
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.
life pain fate
For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
dream fate men
Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.
fate woe toil
Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
fate men balance
Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.
fate men
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
patience fate soul
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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...