Home / Quotes / Quote by Simonides

Quote by Simonides

“I who lie here, Brotachos of Gortyn, was born in Krete, and I did not come here for death but weighty business.”

Quote by Simonides

Author

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Simonides. more

You May Also Like

“When her fate rested on the razor's edge, we gave away our lives to save all Greece.”

Willis Barnstone Epitaph Simonides

Author:Simonides

“Be sure, stranger, to let the Spartans know that we lie here obedient to their command.”

Simonides Edmund Keeley

Author:Simonides

“This is the tomb of the famous Megistias, slain by the Persians near the Spercheios River, a seer who even when aware that death was near would not desert his Spartan kings.”

Willis Barnstone Simonides

Author:Simonides

“Through their extraordinary courage, the wide farmlands of Tegea have not shot fire and smoke into the sky. For they made their choice to leave their children in a country green and sweet with freedom, and died for this in the wild ranks of battle.”

Willis Barnstone Simonides

Author:Simonides

“Against those who are indebted to the allegorical utopian model and its offshoots, the Memory Palace proves that alternatives to the tribal consensus exists. Furthermore, this alternative is a leap away, is deeply discontinuous with the allegorists' endless internal struggles for refinement. It promises not quite freedom but the fact that a careful look at history as achievement rather than ruination offers solid evidence that the allegorical utopian has about it no necessity at all.”

Utopia Allegory Simonides Messianism

Book:Love’s Shadow

Source: Love’s Shadow

“Suddenly Dawn in gold sandals”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Book:The Complete Poems of Sappho

Source: The Complete Poems of Sappho

“But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.”

Time Change Value Memory Self Worth Self Respect Dreaming Forgetting Remembering Unimportance

Author:Stig Dagerman

“I have flown to you like a child to her mother.”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho

“When anger is flooding through your chest best to quiet your reckless barking tongue”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho

“What farm girl dolled up in a farm dress captivates your wits not knowing how to pull her rags down to her ankles?”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho