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I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.

I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.

I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.