Inspirational Quotes on Virgil

“Facilis descensus Averno: Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. (The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this task and mighty labor lies.)”

― Edward Taylor

topics: aeneid , choices-and-consequences , hell , latin , virgil

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“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...] His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling-- no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”

― Edward Taylor

topics: aeneas , greek , myth , mythology , the-aeneid , trojan , troy , virgil

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“Death's brother, sleep.”

― Edward Taylor

topics: aeneid , death , michelle-harrison , sleep , the-aeneid , unrest , virgil

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“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...”

― Edward Taylor

topics: aeneid , greek , myth , mythology , trojans , troy , virgil

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“Then, like ravening wolves in a black mist, when the belly's lawless rage has driven them blindly forth, and their whelps at home await them with thirsty jaws, through swords, through foes we pass to certain death, and hold our way to the city's heart; black night hovers around with sheltering shade.”

― Edward Taylor

topics: greek-mythology , the-aeneid , trojan-war , virgil

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“To what crime do you not drive the hearts of men, accursed hunger for gold?”

― Edward Taylor

topics: greed , the-aeneid , virgil , wisdom

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“I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart...”

― Edward Taylor

topics: greek-mythology , grief , the-aeneid , virgil

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“Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you.”