Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Daily Dose


From Hippolytus, by Euripides, translated by David Grene

NOT TOO

"We should not in the conduct of our lives
be too exacting.  Look, see this roof here --
these overarching beams that span your house --
could builders with all their skill lay them dead straight?
You've fallen into the great sea of love
and with your puny swimming would escape!"

From Scene One, Nurse

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