They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

“[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist exce…”

“When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girl…”

“Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were buil…”

“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf woul…”