Anne Carson Quotes
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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 put their leg and to this day I'm not sure we got it right. He seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully. Early next day I wrote a short talk "On Defloration" which he stole and had published in a small quarterly magazine. Overall this was a characteristic interaction between us. Or should I say ideal. Neither of us had ever seen Venice.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.