Anne Carson Quotes

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• Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
• When I desire you a part of me is gone...
• Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
• All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence…
• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem…
• Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
• A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
• Caught between the tongue and the taste.
• 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 the…
• THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect,…
• Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
• Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
• That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to…
• You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not…
• Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the…
• He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
• I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even…
• Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem…
• DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or…
• Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

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