Anne Carson Quotes

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• I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a…
• I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts…
• I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a…
• I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel…
• I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and…
• Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to…
• There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones…
• There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but…
• We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every…
• When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to…
• It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it…
• You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the…
• Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white…
• Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
• You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit…
• Under the seams runs the pain.
• A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
• When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into…
• Desire is no light thing.
• Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

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