Desire Quote by Anne Carson

“In fact, neither reader nor writer nor lover achieves such consumation. The words we read and the words we write never say exactly what…

— Anne Carson

Eros is a unique experience but it is not love itself. It bridges the gap between sexuality and love; it spans the chasm between…

— John Pierrakos

“Eros remains largely egocentric...it is a longing for union with an object which will fulfil the promise of self-completion....[Agape] is theocentric and selfless. It…

— Andrew Vincent

“Love affairs and marriages stand or fall on this secret. Familiarity and the pedestrian realities of everyday life are the enemies of eros.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Nobody knew how it all began, neither Homer nor Hesiod. Nor Ovid nor Vergil. But it was said that at the beginning, there was…

— Nicholas Chong

“With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love…

— Diane Wolkstein

“All the intrigues of the Gods & Goddesses were the works of Eros, of course. And as the Gods & Goddesses relaxed & lay…

— Nicholas Chong

“Love, I saw now, was an exterior spiritual force that swept through our bodies in the symbolic forms of eros, then bound us materially,…

— Andrew Klavan

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between…

— Anne Carson

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche.…

— Stephen Fry

Love is the symbol of eternity.

— Madame de Stael