The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

a culture is no better than its woods

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.