Anne Carson Quotes
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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There is no person without a world.
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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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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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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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 disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Desire is no light thing.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.