You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

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

DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.

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