Roberto Calasso Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The research literature has identified three factors that universally lead to stress: uncertainty, the lack of information and the loss of control.

Gabor Mate

#3. The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

Roberto Calasso

#4. There is a necessary gestation period during which a writer should protect his work, because the minute he sends it out, or joins a writing group, or enrolls in an MFA program, he engages the part of himself that is focused on the result more than the work. For

Betsy Lerner

#5. 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

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

Roberto Calasso

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

Roberto Calasso

#8. Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Roberto Calasso

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

Roberto Calasso

#11. ardor which is tapas; the name Indra

Roberto Calasso

#12. I warned him, Kylar. She was a lovely, careless girl. The kind of woman born without a heart, so she couldn't imagine breaking anyone else's.

Brent Weeks

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

Roberto Calasso

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

Roberto Calasso

#15. The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.

Hermann Hesse

#16. To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.

Steve Gleason

#17. 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