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When they have first celebrated with hymnody Phoebus Apollo,
Artemis also, dispenser of arrows, and Leto, their mother,
Then, in remembrance of men and of women of times long gone by,
they
Sing a melodious hymn and enchant all the nations of mankind,
For they know well how to mimic the voices and chatter of all men;
Anyone hearing them sing would declare he himself was the speaker,
So the articulate whole of their beautiful ode hangs together.
Come, then, Apollo, be kind, and propitious Artemis also.
Hail and farewell to you, maidens, remember me kindly hereafter
When anybody of humans on earth, say, a wayfaring stranger
Come to this island, should ask your opinion and pose you this
question,
“Who, do you think, is the man that is sweetest of singers, O maidens,
Of those that visit you here? And in which do you take the most
pleasure?”
Answer him then well together, unanimously in my favor:
“He is a blind man whose home is on Chios, that rugged and
rockbound
Island, and all of his poems are excellent, now and hereafter.”
I shall bear your reputation as far as I wander in circles
Over the earth to the fairly inhabited cities of men, who
Will be convinced and believe, for indeed it is truth that I tell them.

-Homer, Greece, before 600 BC

Their gates and mansions have been destroyed, their mortuary priests are [gone], their tombstones are covered with dirt, their tombs are forgotten. (But) their names are proclaimed on account of their books which they composed while they were alive. The memory of their authors is good: it is for eternity and for ever.

Be a writer, take it to heart, so that your name will fare likewise. A book is more effective than a carved tombstone or a permanent sepulchre. They serve as chapels and mausolea in the mind of him who proclaims their names. A name on people’s lips6 will surely be effective in the afterlife!7

- Unknown scribe, Egypt, before 1352 BC

Writing is a path to immortality any great bard can obtain no matter there circumstance, as long as they have the poetic spirit. Homer's world consisted of the Mediterranean sea, but nearly three thousands years into the future and on multiple continents people still read his works. Even more distant and obscure, obscure Egyptian scribes knew that though much of their civilizations would be lost to time, that even if it was nothing but a relic in the future that with their words they had a chance... a chance that seems more real to us, and perhaps them too, than living on in the next world. Can you imagine people 4,000 years into the future reading your words, still contemplating them, basing there own works on them, and having their soul and action inspired by them, writing allows one to do this. A great writer becomes like a god after death in that he becomes immortal, and during life he can be like a god, even if only for himself, capturing the elements of the world and fashioning them into something of his own vision and taste.

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