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)

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)