I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself… — 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
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I… — 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
