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«Houston, this is Apollo 10. You can tell the world we have arrived.»
«Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, / And burn?d is Apollo's laurel-bough, / That sometime grew within this learn?d man.»
Author: Christopher Marlowe
(Playwright, Poet)
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Apollo, bough, branch, grew, Laurel, laurels, sometime
«LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (_Vide supra._)»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«?Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn?t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
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«Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.»
«Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,/ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; / Round many western islands have I been / Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.»
«How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns»
«Not here, O Apollo! / Are haunts meet for thee. / But, where Helicon breaks down / In cliff to the sea.»
«The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Apollo, harsh, harsher, mercury, songs, Songs of
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