From A Lexicon Of The Homeric Dialect
My main hope has been, by making the reading of Homer easier, to bring him to readers who will read the epics as what above all things they are–as poems, as works of imagination. For such reading, translations being useless, an accurate and familiar knowledge of the Homeric [...]
From The Necessity of the Classics by Louise Cowan:
Our need for the classics is intense. Yet any defense of them in our time must come from a sense of their absolute necessity not from a desire to inculcate cultural literacy, or to keep alive a pastime for an elite, but to preserve the full range [...]
It is easier to be enthusiastic about Humanity with a capital ‘H’ than it is to love individual men and women, especially those who are uninteresting, exasperating, depraved, or otherwise unattractive. Loving everybody in general may be an excuse for loving nobody in particular.
– C.S. Lewis
We do not need to live our entire life angry
with our past or with our weakness.
We do not have to be resentful towards our parents, our society, or our church because they have hurt us. We are called to discover that no pain is ever useless. It is more like manure spread on [...]
Music, the fine arts, poetry - anything that festively raises up human existence and thereby constitutes it true riches - all derive their life from a hidden root, and this root is a contemplation which is turned toward God and the world so as to affirm them.
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We see still another form of such activity [contemplation] [...]
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST
TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream !
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real ! Life is earnest!
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