"The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths."
― Gilbert Murray
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Poetry
― Gilbert Murray
More From Gilbert Murray
- "The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of."
- "The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."
More In Poetry
- "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite."― Paul Dirac
- "In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry."― Andrew Motion
- "Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born."― Daisaku Ikeda