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Me Quotes by Anne Carson
- I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
- 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…
- 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…
- When I desire you a part of me is gone...
- [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…
- 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…
- Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
- M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
- Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
- 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…
- You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
- You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale