Anne Carson Quotes

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSON
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSON
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
ANNE CARSON

Language
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
ANNE CARSON

Mom
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSON

Interval
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSON

Known Oneself
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
ANNE CARSON
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSON

Pursue
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSON

Behind Edge Form
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSON

Arrival Delight

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