Homer/period

Famous quotes containing the words homer and/or period:

    “On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would have held up his head in their company.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.”
    —Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863–1938)