Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
All men begin their learning with Homer.
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.