All kinds Quote by Roberto Calasso

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

— Roberto Calasso

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

— Roberto Calasso

“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

“As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.”

— Roberto Calasso

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

— Roberto Calasso

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

“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

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

— Roberto Calasso

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

— Roberto Calasso

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

— Roberto Calasso

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

“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not…

— Roberto Calasso