The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — 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
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
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 Image
