“Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."”

—  Robert Burton, book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 4, subsection 6.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with…" by Robert Burton?
Robert Burton photo
Robert Burton111
English scholar 1577–1640

Related quotes

Dejan Stojanovic photo

“He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

End of the Labyrinth http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21391/End_of_the_Labyrinth <br class="br">From the poems written in English

Maimónides photo

“Every Israelite has a duty to study whether he is poor or rich, whether healthy or suffering, whether young or very old and in failing strength, even if he is poor and supported by charity or begs from door to door.”

Maimónides book Mishneh Torah

Treatise 3: “The Study of the Torah,” Chapter 1, Section 8, H. Russell, trans. (1983), p. 51
Mishneh Torah (c. 1180)

Denise Levertov photo

“He himself must be
the key, now, to the next door,
the next terrors of freedom and joy.”

Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet

St. Peter and the Angel
Oblique Prayers (1984)

Gene Wolfe photo

“No man has a home unless he is master of a place where he must please no one—a place where he can go and lock the door behind him.”

Gene Wolfe book Storeys from the Old Hotel

"Slaves of Silver", Galaxy, 1971, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
Fiction

“The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

Orson Scott Card photo

“At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:

THE END OF THE WORLD

He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

“Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the bread". He did not come merely to shed light; He said, "I am the light". He did not come merely to show the door; He said, "I am the door". He did not come merely to name a shepherd; He said, "I am the shepherd". He did not come merely to point the way; He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life".”

J. Sidlow Baxter (1903–1999) Australian theologian

Baxter's Explore the Book (1987) p. 308.

Al Capone photo

“It's hard, dangerous work, aside from any hate at all, and when a fellow works hard at any line of business he wants to go home and forget about it. He don't want to be afraid to sit near a window or an open door.”

Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster

Harper Lee photo

“That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Related topics