Quote

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

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
Bounce
Words

More quotes by Anne Carson

Image
Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
Anne Carson
Image
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
Anne Carson
Image
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
Anne Carson
Image
Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
Anne Carson
Image
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
Anne Carson
Image
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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 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
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
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
Anne Carson
Image
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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
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
Image
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
Anne Carson
Image
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
Anne Carson
Image
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson
Image
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
Anne Carson
Image
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
Anne Carson
Image
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
Anne Carson
Image
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
Anne Carson