If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at the living without thinking of the dead. We are too fond of seeing the ancients as one thing and the moderns as another.


Ancient Work - The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912) - Part XII - The Enfant Terrible of Literature

Samuel Butler Quotes

If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at...

If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at...

If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at...

If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at...