“Some of the words you'll find within yourself,
the rest some power will inspire you to say.”

— Homér, The Odyssey (Cowper)

III. 26–27 (tr. Robert Fagles); Athena to Telemachus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

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Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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