Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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
Takes
Practice
Light
Shave
Skin
Skins
More quotes by Anne Carson
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
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
Anne Carson
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
Anne Carson
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
Anne Carson
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
Anne Carson
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
Anne Carson
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
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
Anne Carson
Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
Anne Carson
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
Anne Carson
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
Anne Carson
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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
Under the seams runs the pain.
Anne Carson
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
Anne Carson
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
Anne Carson
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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
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