I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Anand Thakur
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
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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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