Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
-
-
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
ANNE CARSON -
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSON -
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON -
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSON -
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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 -
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSON -
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
ANNE CARSON -
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
ANNE CARSON -
I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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 -
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSON -
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
ANNE CARSON -
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSON -
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSON