Quotes by Anne Carson

Anne Carson

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

Government

Hurt

Mother

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Mean

Moving

Time

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

Differences

Space

Thinking

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

Mean

Patterns

Two

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.

Quality

Risk

Stories

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

Blessed

Night

Ocean

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Caught

Taste

Tongue

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Cheer

Dream

Sweet

DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won’t go free. APOLLO Relax, I’m not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you’re breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it’s my trademark.

Fighting

Husband

Law

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

And Love

Desire

Madness

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Abstraction

Adventure

And Love

Animal

Answers

Beautiful

Believe

Blessed

Blindness

Block

Book

Caught

Cheer

Communication

Confusing

Creation

Creation Of The World

Cutting

Dark

Desire

Differences

Different

Doe

Drama

Drawing

Dream

Earth

Effort

Emotional

Emptiness

Ends

Epic

Expression

Eyelashes

Fighting

Fit

Giving

God

Gold

Gone

Government

Greek

Grief

Groups

Hands

Happens

Heart

Hopeful

Hopeless

Hurt

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Quotes by Anne Carson

Anne Carson

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

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

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won’t go free. APOLLO Relax, I’m not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you’re breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it’s my trademark.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

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