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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
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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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More quotes by Anne Carson
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
Anne Carson
The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
Anne Carson
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
Anne Carson
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
Anne Carson
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
Anne Carson
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
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
Anne Carson
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
Anne Carson
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
Anne Carson
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
Anne Carson
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
Anne Carson
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
Anne Carson
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
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
Anne Carson
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
Anne Carson
Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
Anne Carson
