Homer/period

Famous quotes containing the words homer and/or period:

“To him Homer was a great writer, though what his writing was about he did not know.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Intellectual life is international. Only a period of discouragement, an age that has given up on itself, that wants to “preserve,” that has been driven onto the defensive, can be intellectually nationalist. Such a period is essentially “conservative.” A person who has progress in his heart is international.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)