Quotes by Anne Carson

Explore a curated collection of 11 quotes by Anne Carson. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death. — Anne Carson
That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attemptedalthough married six months.Big mystery. No one kne — Anne Carson
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it — Anne Carson
XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud — Anne Carson
...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past t — Anne Carson
The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to — Anne Carson
Like honey is the sleep of the just. — Anne Carson
To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you. — Anne Carson
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public — Anne Carson
And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them — Anne Carson
So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake the entirety of thecom — Anne Carson