Ancient Greeks

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    Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.
    Marilyn French (b. 1929)

    No one would know except for ancient maps
    That such a brook ran water. But I wonder
    If from its being kept forever under,
    The thoughts may not have risen that so keep
    This new-built city from both work and sleep.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
    They have pointed the helms of their ships
    Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)