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I’ve never considered Homer’s title of “poet” more apt than while reading the beginning of this epic. Here’s two of my favorite quotes so far:

These men were now too old for war, but good in council, just as cicadas settle in the trees and fill the woods with sound as sweet as lilies.

But when [Odysseus] released his mighty voice from deep inside his chest, he poured forth words like winter snowflakes