The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.