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
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
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
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how 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
