#amore e psiche

“If Orpheus hadn’t turned around, if Psyche hadn’t tried to know, then we wouldn’t have believed in the strength of their love. Because love is strong like death, tenacious like hell and passion. Those whose happiness no one knows are not truly happy.” (Apuleio)

“[…] as one in a trance, at a Greek gem carved with the figure of Adonis.

He had been seen, so the tale ran, pressing his warm lips to the marble brow of an antique statue that had been discovered in the bed of the river on the occasion of the building of the stone bridge, and was inscribed with the name of the Bithynian slave of Hadrian.

He had passed a whole night in noting the effect of the moonlight on a silver image of Endymion.”

Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates