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Apollo

«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.»
«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._)»
«?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.?»
«Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: Apollo, bow, bowing, bow out, strung, take a bow
«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.»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | Keywords: Apollo, cliff, haunts, helicon
«The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.»