“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.” — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’m inclined to what Nietzsche called “impure thought,” that is to say, a kind of thought where abstractions are so mixed with the… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.” — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster,… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And this task could not… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
