Oracle of Delphi Quotes

A Cadmean victory

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazons had worshipped here, and the fabulously rich King Croesus built the original temple.

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.