Anne Carson Quotes
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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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 she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.
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You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
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I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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There is no person without a world.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.