Quote

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Anne Carson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Happen
Language
Happens
Anything
Refugee
Hungry
Population
Aware

More quotes by Anne Carson

Image
Lava bread makes you passionate.
Anne Carson
Image
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
Anne Carson
Image
The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
Anne Carson
Image
There is no person without a world.
Anne Carson
Image
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
Image
You used to say. Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
Anne Carson
Image
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
Anne Carson
Image
Desire is no light thing.
Anne Carson
Image
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
Anne Carson
Image
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
Anne Carson
Image
Under the seams runs the pain.
Anne Carson
Image
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
Anne Carson
Image
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
Image
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
Anne Carson
Image
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
Anne Carson
Image
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
Anne Carson
Image
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. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
Anne Carson
Image
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
Anne Carson
Image
Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
Anne Carson
Image
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