Quote#Love
Sophocles, the poet loved and feared
Quote byEdmund Gosse · 1849–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: New Poems (1879), "The Tomb of Sophocles".
English (original)
Sophocles, the poet loved and feared, Whose mighty voice once called out of her lair The Dorian muse severe, with braided hair, Who loved the thyrsus and wild dances weird.
— Edmund Gosse
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