Anne Carson Quotes

And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying ...

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and...

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky pen...

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really g...

Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to th...

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You ...

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, ...

So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake th...

When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his per...

Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not...

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living ...

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something rela...

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never ju...

...I am talking about evil.It blooms.It eats.It grins.

Her marble tears run down her marble face.A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.Who has no w...

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I w...

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition...

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short t...

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition...

The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch...

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out wit...

Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it's...

DEATH. . .And now you are here to fight for this woman.You know her promise is given.She has to die ...

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light...

...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistor...

On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Bra...

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

Some conversations are not about what they're about.

at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…

You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and st...

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.

That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attemptedalthough married six months.Big...

XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt...

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun ...

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. Sh...

Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for todayAdjudicateLegislateScandalizeCapitalizehere are Kreon's nouns...

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

But when justice is done the world drops away.

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin do...

There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the o...

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poemfrom the last years of her life that begins"I lose my sc...

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the fe...