Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“…..in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. Like the terrestial crust… — 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
“And now time is rushing towards them where they stand side by side with arms touching, immortality on their faces, night at… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“The fact that Anna is somewhere having coffee or a dream is an assault on me. I hate these moments of poverty.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“In later years this is the one memory he wishes would go away and not come back. And the reason he cannot… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. — 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
