It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSONA refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSONExistence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONYou can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONTo live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSONWhen I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
ANNE CARSON