“After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?”
“Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.”
“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.”
“Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.”
“It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.”
“Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?”