« All Love Quotes · Anne Carson's Page
Love Quotes by Anne Carson
- Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
- Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
- It is for God to fix the time who knows no time,
- All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
- I never had much education in English poetry as such,
- Consider incompleteness as a verb.
- No one will ever make necessity not happen.
- 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…
- Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
- Under the seams runs the pain.
- 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.
- When I desire you a part of me is gone...
- Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
- 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…
- He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
- 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…
- Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I…
- The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
- he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
- There is no person without a world.
- 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…
- The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.…
More Love Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide