“When you are falling in love it is always already too late: dēute, as the poets say.” — 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
“From girl to woman to who I am now, from love to anger to this cold marrow, from fire to shelter to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away… — 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
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
“...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful… — 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
