Affair Quote by Anne Carson

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

— 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…

— 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…

— Anne Carson

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

— Anne Carson

“He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Anne Carson

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

— Anne Carson

“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”

— Anne Carson

“Well, they said, these are the pies we have . It was a proverb.”

— 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…

— Anne Carson