I found this really cool list of women’s translations of ancient Greek and Roman texts! It lists English-language translations dating from the 17th century to 2015.
but indirectly children know everything there is to know. They just don't know why.
Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty
For, when what he knows as art is relegated to the museum and gallery, the unconquerable impulse towards experiences enjoyable in themselves finds such outlet as the daily environment provides.
- John Dewey, Art as Experience
The world is slow to dissolve and leave us.
Matthea Harvey, Sad Little Breathing Machine
I believe in ending sentences with a preposition in order to give the ideas a way out.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
I want to say the poet is never afraid because he is unceasingly afraid, and therefore cannot become that which he already is
Mary Ruefle, On Fear
the whole world around me expanding and contracting, visually and viscerally heaving.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
‘Agamemnon,’ Aeschylus (translated by Anne Carson)
An attempt to intensify the horror by containing it in symmetry.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book