All Anne Carson Quotes
- Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a… Activity
- Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. Inspirational
- Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. Desire
- As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it… Begins
- A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its… Across
- I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like,… Ability
- To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. End
- It is for God to fix the time who knows no time, Fix
- A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains. Attractive
- All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. Absence
- Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition Another Human
- I never had much education in English poetry as such, Education
- What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. Accident
- Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In… Big
- Consider incompleteness as a verb. Consider
- No one will ever make necessity not happen. Ever Make
- Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am. Alone
- I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me. Curmudgeonly
- We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves. Creation
- When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't… Began