What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for today Adjudicate Legislate Scandalize Capitalize here are Kreon's nouns Men Reason Treason Death Ship of State… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Early one morning words were missing. Before that, words were not. Facts were, faces were. In a good story, Aristotle tells us,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am. — Anne Carson Copy Share
“Town of the Dragon Vein If you wake up too early listen for it. A sort of inverted whistling the sound of sound. Being… — Anne Carson Copy Share
“You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room… — Anne Carson Copy Share
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. — Anne Carson Copy Share
“She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it… — Anne Carson Copy Share
“M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or… — Anne Carson Copy Share
“On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends… — Anne Carson Copy Share
“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.” — Anne Carson Copy Share
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss… — Anne Carson Copy Share
“Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin… — Anne Carson Copy Share
