Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

“But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling, there were more delicate existences and even a certain luxury of the soul. She knew that there were a lot of things she didn’t know how to understand.”

— Clarice Lispector, from The Hour of the Star.

ancient greek word of the night: νυκτόμαντις (nyktomantis), one who prophesies by night

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

E. E SCOTT

“You have it now and that is all your life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that?”

— For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

“But deep inside her she never forgets.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks (1951-1959)

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on translating Abdulla Pashew's "Resurrection" (essay here, full poem here) [ID'd]

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

““If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward you are always in the same place.” - Unknown”

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