More from Homer
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.Iliad, Book IX, 312–313 (tr. Alexander Pope)- Iliad, Book XV, 496–497 (tr. Lord Derby)
Bird-signs!
Fight for your country—that is the best, the only omen!Iliad, Book XII, 243 (tr. Robert Fagles)
More about poetry
T. S. Eliot1888–1965“Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms
