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…

— Anne Carson

“You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still…

— 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…

— Anne Carson

“M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over…

— Anne Carson

“On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone…

— 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…

— Anne Carson

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

— Anne Carson

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

— Anne Carson

“Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or…

— Anne Carson

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

— Anne Carson

“I loved him for his beauty. As I would again if he came near. Beauty convinces.”

— Anne Carson

“Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental…

— Anne Carson

“Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.”

— Anne Carson

“So about an hour later we are in the taxi shooting along empty country roads towards town. The April light is clear…

— Anne Carson

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a…

— Anne Carson

“let's do something cheerful all your designs are about captivity, it depresses me. Geryon watched the top of Herakles' head and felt…

— Anne Carson

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time,

— Anne Carson

What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the…

— Anne Carson

“When you are falling in love it is always already too late: dēute, as the poets say.”

— Anne Carson