Quote

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

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
Pity
Ocean
Mother

More quotes by Anne Carson

Image
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
Anne Carson
Image
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
Anne Carson
Image
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
Anne Carson
Image
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
Anne Carson
Image
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
Anne Carson
Image
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson
Image
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
Anne Carson
Image
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
Anne Carson
Image
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
Image
I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
Anne Carson
Image
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Anne Carson
Image
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
Anne Carson
Image
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
Image
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
Anne Carson
Image
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
Anne Carson
Image
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
Anne Carson