The Iliad

“Homer makes us Hearers, and Virgil leaves us Readers.”

Patroclus . . . I will never forget him, not as long as I'm still among the living and my springing knees will lift and drive me on. Though the dead forget their dead in the House of Death, I will remember, even there, my dear companion.

Why do you sport that bow, you spineless fool? — it's worthless as the wind!

I'm sick with longing for you!