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“Personally, I hate those who are furtive and touchy, morose in their ways. I have learned that you, Megistes, are of the innocent, of the childlike ones.”

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“My temples are white, my head largely bald. Graceful youth has departed from my face, and my teeth are the loose teeth of an old man. I have few years left of sweet life. Therefore I tremble and fear the underworld, for the lightless chasm of death is dreadful and the descent appalling: once cast down into Hell there is no return.”

Willis Barnstone Anakreon

Author:Anakreon

“The truth is that no man ever was or will be who understands the gods and all I speak of. If you stumble on some rocks of the whole truth you never know it. There is always speculation.”

Willis Barnstone Xenophanes

Author:Xenophanes

“1 Man made his gods, and furnished them with his own body, voice, and garments. 2 If a horse or lion or a slow ox had agile hands for paint and sculpture, the horse would make his god a horse, the ox would sculpt an ox. 3 Our gods have flat noses and black skins say the Ethiopians. The Thracians say our gods have red hair and hazel eyes.”

Willis Barnstone Xenophanes

Author:Xenophanes

“In this world, one of the biggest illusions that we live in is that we have unlimited time. With that mindset, we are uncontrolled to waste it as much as we can.”

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Book:Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

Source: Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Whom they call Iris is also a raincloud that we see as purple, scarlet and green.”

Willis Barnstone Xenophanes

Author:Xenophanes

“One big thing I understand: I know how to spit back with black venom against the man who wrongs me.”

Willis Barnstone Archilochos

Author:Archilochos

“Now chasms and mountain summits are asleep, and sierra slopes and ravines; creeping things nourished by the dark earth, hillside beasts and generations of bees, monsters in the depths of the purple brine, all lie asleep, and also tribes [...] of flying birds.”

Willis Barnstone Alkman

Author:Alkman

“Our king Apollo, O child of mighty Zeus, when you were born your father gave you a gold headband and a lyre of tortoise shell, and more: a chariot drawn by swans. You were to go to Delphi and the Kastalian springs whose waters are the gift of broad Kephissos, and there deliver justice to the Hellenes through the oracles. But when you seized the reins, you made the swans sail north to the distant land of the Hyperboreans, and though the Delphians begged you to return—with paeans of flutes and circles of women dancing about the tripod— Apollo, you remained to rule that people through the long year. Came the season when the tripod rings loud and clear in Delphi, you turned the swans to Parnassos. It was high noon of summer when you glided back from the far northlands; swallows and nightingales were singing; cicadas also sang about you; silver brooks poured down from Kastalia, and the great river Kephissos threw blue-foaming waves into the bright wind, yes, even the waters knew a god was coming home.”

Apollo Willis Barnstone Delphi Alkaios Parnassus

Author:Alkaios

“Well, what if some barbaric Thracian glories in the perfect shield I left under a bush? I was sorry to leave it—but I saved my skin. Does it matter? O hell, I'll buy a better one.”

Willis Barnstone Archilochos

Author:Archilochos

“I don't like a general who towers over the troops, lordly with elegant locks and trim mustachios. Give me a stumpy soldier glaringly bowlegged, yet rockfirm on his feet, and in his heart a giant.”

Willis Barnstone Archilochos

Author:Archilochos

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