Stanley Lombardo: Quotes about the trip

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Stanley Lombardo: 34 quotes0 likes

“p>The Way is calm and wide,
Not easy, not difficult.
But small minds get lost.
Hurrying, they fall behind.Clinging, they go too far,
Sure to take a wrong turn.
Just let it be! In the end,
Nothing goes, nothing stays.”

Stanley Lombardo

The Hsin-hsin-ming of Seng-ts'an, lines 61–68
Translations, Trust in Mind (2008)

“There's no way to get around the mind of Zeus.”

Stanley Lombardo

Theogony, line 617
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

“Through me is the way to the city of woe.
Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.
Through me is the way to the lost below.”

Stanley Lombardo

Canto III, lines 1–3
Translations, Inferno (2008)