Greek Poetry Quotes: top 28 famous quotes about Greek Poetry

Greek Poetry Quotes & Sayings

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You can go as far as your mind lets you. — Mary Kay Ash

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific. — Barbara Brown Taylor

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Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry. — Frank E. Gaebelein

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. — Joni Mitchell

The word poetry comes from the Greek word poiesis which just means "a making". So if you've made it, it's poetry. Even if it's breakfast. — Benedict Smith

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul. — Pablo Picasso

but if you love us
choose a younger bed
for I cannot bear
to live with you when I am the older one — Sappho

Blood is not destiny. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.
You could not believe I was more than your echo. — Margaret Atwood

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

The touched heart madly stirs,
your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles -
every gesture is a proclamation,
every sound is speech ... — Sappho

gathering flowers so very delicate a girl — Sappho

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules. — Tina Turner

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre. — Quintus Ennius

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray

I felt like I'd just discovered my last big glass of milk had actually come from a bull. — Ari Marmell

Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil) — Callimachus

Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in — Sappho

We are all debts owed to death. — Simonides

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre. — Terry A. O'Neal

Love, not for a purpose, love just for the sake of love. — Debasish Mridha

So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica. — Robert McCloskey

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. — Thomas Aquinas

Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller

neither for me honey nor the honey bee — Sappho