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)

“Finally she grew quiet, and after that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage. Hours of this, a period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both. Out of this an awful calm.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)