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Adam Nicolson quotes: A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.

A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.

Adam Nicolson quotes: These are the two possibilities for human life.

These are the two possibilities for human life.

Adam Nicolson quotes: The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence,

The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence,

Adam Nicolson quotes: Recognizing that I had understood something that evening: the banality of one's own death, so much less terrible than the death of someone you love;

Recognizing that I had understood something that evening: the banality of one's own death, so much less terrible than the death of someone you love;

Adam Nicolson quotes: A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

Adam Nicolson quotes: For them, and for Homer, impermanence is life's central sorrow and the source of its most lasting pain.

For them, and for Homer, impermanence is life's central sorrow and the source of its most lasting pain.

Adam Nicolson quotes: Iliad's subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be.

Iliad's subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be.

Adam Nicolson quotes: in 1944 the Germans executed brutal, slaughtering attacks on the people of mountain Crete.

in 1944 the Germans executed brutal, slaughtering attacks on the people of mountain Crete.

Adam Nicolson quotes: For which he had to pay "1 panegyrick poem every year." That is Homeric rent.

For which he had to pay "1 panegyrick poem every year." That is Homeric rent.

Adam Nicolson quotes: There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.

There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.

Adam Nicolson quotes: There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.

There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.

Adam Nicolson quotes: The first printed Greek Homer had appeared in 1488, in Florence, published by an Athenian, Demetrius Chalcondyles,

The first printed Greek Homer had appeared in 1488, in Florence, published by an Athenian, Demetrius Chalcondyles,

Adam Nicolson quotes: In those days, now it was in those days, In those nights, now it was in those nights, In those years, now it was in those years

In those days, now it was in those days, In those nights, now it was in those nights, In those years, now it was in those years

Adam Nicolson quotes: One eighteenth-century bard was given a lovely estate in Harris by his MacLeod chief,

One eighteenth-century bard was given a lovely estate in Harris by his MacLeod chief,

Adam Nicolson quotes: The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

Adam Nicolson quotes: Odysseus is always slipping out, the man who has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything,

Odysseus is always slipping out, the man who has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything,

Adam Nicolson quotes: The first objects to be designed with the sole purpose of killing another person.

The first objects to be designed with the sole purpose of killing another person.

Adam Nicolson quotes: This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.

This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.