Anne Carson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
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“As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.”
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“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”
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“When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.”
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“One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.”
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“A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.”
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“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
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“You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?”
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“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”
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“It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”
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“A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.”
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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
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“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.”
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“We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.”
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“Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
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“To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.”
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“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.”
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“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.”
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“Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.”
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“Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan”
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“The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.”
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“What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.”
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“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.”
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“I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-”
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“Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.”
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“They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.”
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