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
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. — 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
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it… — 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
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
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