Calasso Roberto Quotes

#1. My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#2. The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

Roberto Calasso

#3. I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

Lauren Oliver

#4. Sycorax has grown into a hoop

William Shakespeare

#5. Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.

Billy Campbell

#6. 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 sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.

Roberto Calasso

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

Roberto Calasso

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

Roberto Calasso

#9. Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

Charles Simic

#10. I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

Tony Ross

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

Roberto Calasso

#12. Nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.

Melissa Etheridge

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

Roberto Calasso

#15. ardor which is tapas; the name Indra

Roberto Calasso

#16. Inside Metro Diner, we grab a table near the back. A waitress who clearly ate a water buffalo for breakfast waddles to our table.

Victoria Scott

#17. As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.

Roberto Calasso

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

Roberto Calasso

#19. The truth was, you're happier when you're needed and stronger when you're loved.

Penelope Douglas

#20. I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

Joss Stone

#21. 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