--- title: "1 Skin Soul Quotes By Anne Carson" description: "1 Skin Soul quotes by Anne Carson. Plus more from Anne Carson and more Skin Soul sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/anne-carson-1985_cold-air_in-that-blurred-state-between-awake-and_1085181.jpg" --- > [“…..in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. Like the terrestial crust of the earth which is proportionately 10 times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/in-that-blurred-state-between-awake-and-asleep-when-too-many-intake/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/anne-carson-1985_cold-air_in-that-blurred-state-between-awake-and_1085181.jpg) ## More by Anne Carson > [Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/those-nights-lying-alone-are-not-discontinuous-with-this-cold-hectic/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [“Town of the Dragon Vein If you wake up too early listen for it. A sort of inverted whistling the sound of sound. Being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/town-of-the-dragon-vein-if-you-wake-up-too-early-listen-for-it-a-sort/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [“You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/you-could-take-the-entirety-of-the-common-sense-of-humans-and-put-it/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/could-you-visit-me-in-dreams-that-would-cheer-me-sweet-to-see-friends/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [“He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/he-had-a-respect-for-facts-maybe-this-was-one/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [“She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/she-stumbled-then-and-geryon-caught-her-other-arm-it-was-like-a/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [“M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/m-but-everytime-i-start-in-everytime-i-everytime-you-see-i-would-have/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [“On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/on-the-rules-of-perspective-a-bad-trick-mistake-dishonesty-these-are/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/we-participate-in-the-creation-of-the-world-by-decreating-ourselves/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/look-at-me-this-is-nobility-in-a-man-to-bear-what-falls-from-the-gods/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [“Well, they said, these are the pies we have . It was a proverb.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/well-they-said-these-are-the-pies-we-have-it-was-a-proverb/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/what-is-a-quote-a-quote-cognate-with-quota-is-a-cut-a-section-a-slice/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/up-against-another-human-being-one-s-own-procedures-take-on-definition/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/philosophy-hopeless-yet-it-gives-me-hope/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) > [“Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/grief-and-rage-you-need-to-contain-that-to-put-a-frame-around-it/) [Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/skin-soul/anne-carson/#itemlist", "name": "1 Skin Soul Quotes By Anne Carson", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“…..in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. 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