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Northrop Frye
“I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.”
Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Anne Carson
“To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.”
Anne Carson, Red Doc>

Richard Siken
“Verse. Chorus. Verse.
I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.”
Richard Siken, Crush

Richard Siken
“You just wanted to prove that there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.”
Richard Siken, Crush

“They’ve kept the truth
about Persephone a secret,
burying it deep below
Hercules’s murdered wife
and all of Zeus’s affairs.
It’s dangerous, you see,
a spark threatening to
ignite a long dead flame.

Power.

She loved her power,
the Queen of the Dead,
to forever reign
in the fires of hell.
She wore her crown
like a beacon;
a beautiful queen,
plotting against her king.
They never wanted you
to know the hunger of Persephone,
how she starved for something
other than pomegranates.

Control.

The primal thirst
that burns all women’s throats,
denied by eons of men.
Listen closely to the voice from hell, sweetheart.
“You are a queen;
don’t wait for a king.”
Emily Palermo

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