Delphi/oracle

Famous quotes containing the words delphi and/or oracle:

“At Delphi I prayed
to Apollo
that he maintain in me
the flame of the poem
and I drank of the brackish
spring there....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Know thyself.”
—Inscription on the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, 6th century B.C.....