Tutteli 3 Quotes & Sayings

And I think of Emily Dickinson, and my favorite poem about death, and the line that reads "I could not see to see." This is the line Ms. Sylvia copied onto the board in her beautiful cursive, which spirals away like blindweed tendrils, and then she asked the class what it might mean. I didn't even have to think about it. I just knew. To see to see, which is not exactly what Dickinson wrote, means knowing how to look. How to look to understand. How to look without your eyes. And to die, is not to see at all. Of course, I didn't actually say this out loud. — Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. — Anne Stevenson

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. — Victoria Abril

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime. — Giacomo Casanova

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull. — Madeline Miller

This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree. — Edgar Allan Poe