Hexameter Poetry Quotes & Sayings

I quickly scoop up the rest of my personal life on display on the sidewalk and I'm relieved that I had removed the flavored condoms that Regina had shoved into my purse before I left yesterday. Bacon Flavor. What woman wants to taste meat while, you know, tasting meat? — Vi Keeland

By the time they finished eating, it was fully dark and a little bit chilly, the kind of night that's caught somewhere between summer and fall, old and new. — Jennifer E. Smith

Please ... they'll kill me. I'll kill you ... worry about me. — Richard Stark

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre. — Quintus Ennius

Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others. — Ed Thigpen

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism. — Quintus Ennius

Love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain, — Elizabeth Peters

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true. — George R R Martin

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. — Walter Savage Landor

Each man sees what his own experience has taught him. — Michael Flynn