Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
Anne Carson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Someone
Slice
Toss
Section
Quote
Rind
Sections
Quota
Orange
Skate
Cutting
Suck
Away
Skates
More quotes by Anne Carson
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
Anne Carson
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
Anne Carson
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
Anne Carson
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
Anne Carson
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.
Anne Carson
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
Anne Carson
Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
Anne Carson
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
Anne Carson
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
Anne Carson
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
Anne Carson
Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
Anne Carson
I don't know that we really think any thoughts we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
Anne Carson
Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
Anne Carson
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne Carson
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
Anne Carson
You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, where can I put it down?
Anne Carson