Aeneid Book VI Quotes

“Fate will allow the world
Only to glimpse him, then rob it of him quickly.”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“But black night wreathes his brow
With dolorous shadow.”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“Spare those you conquer, crush those who overbear.”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“What possesses the poor souls? Why this mad desire
To get back to the light?”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“Let the monster cave-dog howl his howl forever
And keep on terrifying bloodless shades...”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“Banish the thought that praying can ever affect
The edicts of gods.”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“...the Sibyl,
Resisting possession, storms through the cavern,
In the throes of her struggle with Phoebus
Apollo. But the more she froths at the mouth
And contorts, the more he controls her, commands her
And makes her his creature. Then of their own accord
Those hundred vast tunnel-mouths gape and give vent
To the prophetess's responses...”
― Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

“I myself speak to you, from bright Olympus, especially to you, to whom all things are dear to Jove, whoever you are, and to carry souls through our labors, each of us suffers our own shades [spirits/ghost]. And all the experiences of life remain, mindful also of recent losses.”
― Virgil, Aeneid Book VI