The Temple of Nyx

Attributed to the Sappho Painter, ca. 500 BCE, Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

12, Our odyssey

Homer (Samuel Butler), The Odyssey, Book XII

Here she ended, and dawn enthroned in gold began to show in heaven, whereon she returned inland. I then went on board and told my men to loose the ship from her moorings

12, but could not speak

Lucie Brock-Broido, Jessica, From the Well

I cannot speak a word yet, but I know them all.

13, a nested memory within

Henri Bergson (Mabelle L. Andison), The Creative Mind

the following moment always contains, over and above the preceding one, the memory the latter has left it.

14, This meant I loved

Louise Glück, First Memory

… I thought

that pain meant

I was not loved.

It meant I loved.