Full Idea
Homer is so at home among his gods, and takes such delight in them as a poet, that he surely must have been deeply irreligious.
Gist of Idea
Homer so enjoys the company of the gods that he must have been deeply irreligious
Source
report of Homer (The Iliad [c.850 BCE]) by Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human 125
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.88
A Reaction
Blake made a similar remark about where the true allegiance of Milton lay in 'Paradise Lost'.