Meg Matheny

“All happenings needed to be; accept that, my
dear. Ask for any forgiveness one more time
if you must,

ask for forgiveness one more time if you must,
then move on to your glory and sublime reign.”
― Hafez

“When you are falling in love it is always already too late: dēute, as the poets say.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Your grief is as great as your splendor was: some god is weighing the one out equal to the other.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides