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“I recognize the vestiges of an old flame”

Love Love At First Sight Aeneas Dido

Author:Virgil

“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...] His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling-- no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”

Myth Mythology Greek Troy Virgil Aeneas Trojan The Aeneid

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

“the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.”

Myth Mythology Greek Troy Virgil Aeneas Trojan The Aeneid

Author:Virgil

“Show yourselves men my friends, and keep a stout heart. Think of your honour. With all men’s eyes upon you it is a shame to be a coward. He that fights and will not run may live to see another sun. He that runs and will not fight is bound to die and serves him right.”

War Poetry Mythology Epic Iliad Homer Aeneas War Poetry

Book:Iliad

Source: Iliad

“The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades, the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night, before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.”

Myth Mythology Greek Troy Aeneid Virgil Aeneas Dido Trojan

Author:Virgil

“Then answered her son, who turns the stars in the sky: 'What way art thou bending fate, Mother? What dost thou ask For these thy ships? May vessels built by the hands Of mortal men claim an immortal right? Is Aeneas to pass, sure of the outcome, through dangers When nothing is sure? To what god is such power allowed?”

Poetry Rome Aeneid Aeneas

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

“I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known Above high air of heaven by my fame. -AM #CymruAMbyth”

Aeneid Virgil Aeneas Middleton

Author:Aeneas Middleton

“One speech in't I chiefly loved. T'was Aeneas' tale to Dido; and thereabout of it especially when he speaks of Priam's slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin at this line”

Death Hamlet Polonius Aeneas The Odyssey Dido Claudius Patricide The Illiad

Book:Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?”

Doe Land Holy Bible Variety Poetic Yield Passages Moses Voyages Ulysses Holy Land Aeneas

Book:The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street

Source: The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street

“Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.”

Giving Littles Persons Action Taken Events Poet Regard Contrary Admire Immortality Historian Reverence Our Thoughts Achilles Aeneas

Book:The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'

Source: The Battle of the Books: And Other Works, Including 'A Modest Proposal'

“In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic needs a model and that for Dante to write this great poem he needs someone to come before him and he turns to Virgil's text, especially book six where Aeneas goes down into the underworld. And for me, that's a model of the poet's relationship to previous poetry, to another poetry as calling out for guidance.”

Way Needs Writing Book Turns Poet Calling Six Models Recognition Guidance Epic Underworld Inferno Aeneas

Author:Edward Hirsch

“A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.”

Age Time Myth Glorious Touched Captains Renaissance Neon Ulysses Orpheus Aeneas

Book:The electric kool-aid acid test

Source: The electric kool-aid acid test

“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”

Ifs Father Known Dad Ruins Aeneas

Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas”

Men Mother Pleasure Aeneas

Author:Lucretius