Simonides of Ceos was a Ancient Greek poet who lived from about 556 B.C.E to 468 B.C.E The following a few of the sayings attributed to him. I like the second one in particular.
The word is the image of the thing.
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is a painting that speaks.
Simonides of Ceos in Lattimore, R. 1960 (2nd Ed.) Greek Lyrics Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Haven’t posted for a while due to illness. Have added a new Category “Morsels”. Tiny little poems by other poets.
Today’s morsel is from Ancient Greece from a collection of Anonymous Drinking Songs (not exactly what I would expect from a drinking song. Maybe it sounds better when you sing it very loudly and drunkenly).
Oh that it were given to us to open
up the heart of every man, and read his
mind within, and then close it,
and thus, never deceived, be assured of a friend
Anonymous in Lattimore, R. 1960 (2nd ed.) Greek Lyrics Chicago: University of Chicago Press
