All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“I stopped watching. I forgot about Nudes. I lived my life, which felt like a switched-off TV. Something had gone through me… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“It was not fear of ridicule, to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life, but… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“When I contemplate the physical spaces that articulate the letters 'I love you' in a written text, I may be led to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“fr. 2 All We as Leaves He (following Homer) compares man's life with the leaves. All we as leaves in the shock… — 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
