"When we fall in love and have the concurrent inexplicable sensation that we are destined to be with another for a long time, perhaps a lifetime, what could be more frightening, but maybe that is love’s most beautiful, difficult and complicated design, to take us continually beyond fixed notions of who we are, and to likewise sense another alongside one who is also beyond themselves, beyond control, beyond fate."
"Both Li Bai and Du Fu attempted to understand the political disintegration around them by taking on subjects that normally remained outside Tang poetry. Their work was startling in its artistry and breadth—and still is, in a China that is again changing rapidly. Each died convinced he’d wasted his talent, at the margins of the empire he longed to serve."
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“For me, Virgil’s Aeneid is partly about continuity and repetition, a setting out over and over again. Likewise, David Ferry’s deep intertextual approach to writing—especially in Bewilderment, which includes his translations of Virgil, Catullus, and others, alongside his original poems—is also about continuity and iteration."
