Roberto Calasso Quotes
- The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he…
- Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.
- The gods are fugitive guests of literature.
- Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.
- Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.
- The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.
- Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery:…
- We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind…
- Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned