If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But… — 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
That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can… — 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
