Maria, you are a monster; you are not an artist nor a woman nor a human being, but a monster.
--
Victor de Sabata, regarding her timing and precision, as quoted in Maria Callas Remembered : An Intimate Portrait of the Private Callas (2000) by Nadia Stancioff, p. 98Maria Callas
That I may reduce the monster to
Myself, and then may be myself
In face of the monster, be more than part
Of it, more than the monstrous player of
One of its monstrous lutes, not be
Alone, but reduce the monster and be,
Two things, the two together as one,
And play of the monster and of myself,
Or better not of myself at all,
But of that as its intelligence,
Being the lion in the lute
Before the lion locked in stone.Wallace Stevens
The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
The monster cried out at the tower. The foghorn blew. The monster roared again. The foghorn blew. The monster opened its great toothed mouth, and the sound that came from it was the sound of the foghorn itself.
Ray Bradbury
It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.
H. P. Lovecraft
In the corner of the morning in the past
I would sit and blame the master first and last.
All the roads were straight and narrow
And the prayers were small and yellow.
And the rumour spread that I was aging fast.
Then I ran across a monster who was sleeping
By a tree.
And I looked and frowned and the monster was me.David Bowie
Callas, Maria
Callender, James T.
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