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Book cover for The Bacchae (Plays for Performance Series)
And they say that some stranger has come hither, a juggler, a charmer, from the Lydian land, fragrant in hair with golden curls, florid, having in his eyes the graces of Venus, who days and nights is with them, alluring the young maidens ...more
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Anne Carson
“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

Annie Dillard
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard
“Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.”
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard
“The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.”
Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard
“I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you can rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff”
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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