Allen Ginsberg
Poet, Activist
"I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd."
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Odyssey
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Asher Roth
Rapper
"It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing."
Homer
Poet
"Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share."
Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut."
Homer
Poet
"The blade itself incites to deeds of violence."
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"Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful."
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"I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us."
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