“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are”

“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”

“My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.”

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”

“for no god may undo what another god has done...”

“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.But since, o gods, you were the source of thesebodies becoming other bodies, breatheyour breath into my book of changes: maythe song I sing be seamless as its wayweaves from the world's beginning to our day.”

“Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight”