Quote

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

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
Opinion
Space
Persona
Read
Manufacturing
Process
Reviews
Become
Opinions
Take
Avoid
Lose
Loses

More quotes by Anne Carson

Image
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
Anne Carson
Image
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson
Image
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
Image
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
Anne Carson
Image
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
Anne Carson
Image
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
Anne Carson
Image
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
Anne Carson
Image
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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
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
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
Image
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
Anne Carson
Image
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
Anne Carson
Image
There is no person without a world.
Anne Carson
Image
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
Anne Carson
Image
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
Anne Carson
Image
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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