Caught between the tongue and the taste.

I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.

There is no person without a world.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.