“Goddess of song, teach me the storyof a hero.”

“But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.”

“impossible is nothing”

“If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.”

“Because what you read matters.”

“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.”

“Teaching is a gift for both the recipient and the teacher.”