"It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey."

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I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

— Anne Carson