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From Quotes by Anne Carson
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into…
- 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…
- What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself…
- I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
- Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular…
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