Quote

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

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
School
Anymore
Remember
Physical
Still
Taught
Whole
Enjoy
Thing
Language
Think
Making
Thinking
Business
Cursive
Stills
Schools

More quotes by Anne Carson

Image
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
Anne Carson
Image
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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
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
Under the seams runs the pain.
Anne Carson
Image
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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
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
Image
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
Anne Carson
Image
You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
Anne Carson
Image
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
Anne Carson
Image
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
Anne Carson