Poetry Quote by Anne Carson Download Open image ““You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.”” — Anne Carson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry War
“I'm not sure why we have that [book on weaponry] on the shelves. I'd feel a lot better if we didn't teach our guests… — Lindsey Renee Backen Copy Share Image
“It takes thousands of bullets to kill an army but one to end a war.” — Michael Martinez Copy Share Image
“To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job.” — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
“No one who threatens to kill people as often as you do would be dumb enough to actually kill someone.” — Sherry D. Ficklin Copy Share Image
“When you're in the middle of a killing field and the fucking Chooser of the Slain tells you to do something, you do it.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“It is foolish to teach a person a lesson by killing them. For they’d be too dead to learn anything.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Yes, attempts at murder are often misunderstandings. Unless it involves armies, in which case it’s diplomacy.” — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
“Killing time isn't as difficult as it sounds. I can shoot a hundred numbers through the chest and watch them bleed decimal points in… — Tahereh Mafi 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
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image