31 Quotes by Anne Carson
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, whose work often blurs the lines between different literary genres. She is known for her innovative style, combining classical themes with modern language and imagery. Anne Carson has published several books of poetry, essays, and translations, including "Autobiography of Red," "Nox," and "The Beauty of the Husband." Her work has been widely praised for its intellectual depth, lyrical beauty, and experimentation with form. Carson is also a professor of classics at the University of Michigan, where she teaches courses on ancient literature and its relevance to contemporary culture. (Bio)
Anne Carson Quotes
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves. (Meaning)
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. (Meaning)
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
Under the seams runs the pain.
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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.
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
My religion makes no sense
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
There is no person without a world.
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
― Anne Carson Quotes
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