Homer/period

Famous quotes containing the words homer and/or period:

    Mere dreams, mere dreams! Yet Homer had not sung
    Had he not found it certain beyond dreams
    That out of life’s own self-delight had sprung
    The abounding glittering jet....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
    Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)