He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
More Anne Carson Quotes
-
-
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSON -
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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 -
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSON -
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSON -
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.
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 -
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON -
I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
ANNE CARSON -
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSON -
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSON -
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
ANNE CARSON -
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSON -
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.
ANNE CARSON -
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSON