Callimachus quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.

  • Big book, a big bore.

  • O Charidas, what of the under world?" "Great darkness." "And what of the resurrection?" "A lie." "And Pluto?" "A fable; we perish utterly.

  • Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them.

  • And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

  • A big book is a big misfortune.

  • Nothing unattested do I sing.

  • You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

  • Set a thief to catch a thief.

  • A great book is like great evil.

  • I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

  • I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common

  • Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.

  • To little men, gods send little things.

  • More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

  • A good man never dies.

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share