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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
— Anne Carson
We disappear.It happens to me frequently. You disappear? Yes and then come back.
Moments of death I call them. — Anne Carson
English is a bitch
— Anne Carson
When I desire you a part of me is gone...
— Anne Carson
Facts are bigger in the dark.
— Anne Carson
Who does not end up a female impersonator?
— Anne Carson
God's pity! How long will it feel like burning?
— Anne Carson
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
— Anne Carson
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
— Anne Carson
Friends disappear or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone. — Anne Carson
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
— Anne Carson
They were two superior eelsat the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics. — Anne Carson
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
— Anne Carson
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
— Anne Carson
To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.
— Anne Carson
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
— Anne Carson
I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing. — Anne Carson
Your grief is as great as your splendor was: some god is weighing the one out equal to the other.
— Anne Carson
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
— Anne Carson
Youth is a dream where I go every night and wake with just this little jumping bunch of arteries in my hand.
— Anne Carson
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
— Anne Carson
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
— Anne Carson
How does distance look? is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved.
— Anne Carson
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
— Anne Carson
M: Is he smartI: She yes very smart sees right through me
M: In my day we valued blindness rather more — Anne Carson
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
— Anne Carson
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
— Anne Carson
Like honey is the sleep of the just.
— Anne Carson
Repent means the pain again.
— Anne Carson
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
— Anne Carson
It is perilous to live past the end of your myth
— Anne Carson
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time,
— Anne Carson
There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.
— Anne Carson
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
— Anne Carson
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
— Anne Carson
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
— Anne Carson
I shall not walk your ways again.
— Anne Carson
Some conversations are not about what they're about.
— Anne Carson
Sublime natures are seldom clean!
— Longinus
I am a drop of gold he would sayI am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things- — Anne Carson
He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.
— Anne Carson
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
— Anne Carson
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
— Anne Carson
Lava bread makes you passionate.
— Anne Carson
Geryon was a monster everything about him was red
— Anne Carson
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
— Anne Carson
What's here doesn't please you,what's far off you crave.
Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides — Anne Carson
XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud
— Anne Carson
Love does not make me gentle or kind. — Anne Carson
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
— Anne Carson
I don't want to be a person.I want to be unbearable. — Anne Carson
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earthwe call it life. — Anne Carson
You remember too much,my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?
And I said,
Where do I put it down? — Anne Carson
Desire is no light thing.
— Anne Carson
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
— Anne Carson
But when justice is done the world drops away.
— Anne Carson
When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right.
— Anne Carson
Under the seams runs the pain.
— Anne Carson
There is a loneliness that fills the plain.Total.
Lunar. — Anne Carson
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
— Anne Carson
I am talking about evil.It blooms.
It eats.
It grins. — Anne Carson
Pilgrims were people in scientific exile.
— Anne Carson
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
— Anne Carson
Although a monster Geryon could be charming in company.
— Anne Carson
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
— Anne Carson
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
— Anne Carson
He stood against the wind and let it peel himclean — Anne Carson
