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Anne Carson Quote: “How does distance look?” is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved.”

51. “How does distance look?” is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “I don’t know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That’s where the mind moves, that’s what’s new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people’s heads for a long time.”

52. “I don’t know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That’s where the mind moves, that’s what’s new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people’s heads for a long time.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “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.”

53. “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

Anne Carson Quote: “I went mad, a god hurt me, I fell.”

54. “I went mad, a god hurt me, I fell.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Facts are bigger in the dark.”

55. “Facts are bigger in the dark.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Consider incompleteness as a verb.”

56. “Consider incompleteness as a verb.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

57. “When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement –.”

58. “I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement –.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Repent means “the pain again.”

59. “Repent means “the pain again.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “In Geryon’s autobiography this page has a photograph of some red rabbit giggle tied with a white ribbon. He has titled it “Jealous of My Little Sensations.”

60. “In Geryon’s autobiography this page has a photograph of some red rabbit giggle tied with a white ribbon. He has titled it “Jealous of My Little Sensations.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Humans in love are terrible. You see them come hungering at one another like prehistoric wolves, you see something struggling for life in between them like a root or a soul and it flares for a moment, then they smash it. The difference between them smashes the bones out. So delicate the bones.”

61. “Humans in love are terrible. You see them come hungering at one another like prehistoric wolves, you see something struggling for life in between them like a root or a soul and it flares for a moment, then they smash it. The difference between them smashes the bones out. So delicate the bones.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.”

62. “Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Desire is not simple. In Greek the act of love is a mingling and desire melts the limbs. Boundaries of body, category of thought, are confounded.”

63. “Desire is not simple. In Greek the act of love is a mingling and desire melts the limbs. Boundaries of body, category of thought, are confounded.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.”

64. “I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Your voice I know. It had me terrified. When I hear it in dreams, from time to time all my life, it sounds like a taunt – but dreams distort sound, for they send it over many waters. During these hard days, I, a pilgrim, am giving my consideration to this. I trudge along the bottom of the river and the questioning goes on in me. What are we made of but hunger and rage? His heels rise and fall in front of me. How surprised I am to be entangled in the knowledge of some other animal.”

65. “Your voice I know. It had me terrified. When I hear it in dreams, from time to time all my life, it sounds like a taunt – but dreams distort sound, for they send it over many waters. During these hard days, I, a pilgrim, am giving my consideration to this. I trudge along the bottom of the river and the questioning goes on in me. What are we made of but hunger and rage? His heels rise and fall in front of me. How surprised I am to be entangled in the knowledge of some other animal.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone’s arm after you grab it?”

66. “She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone’s arm after you grab it?”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.”

67. “Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Now I think it is true to say of the road, and also of God, that it does not move. At the same time, it is everywhere. It has a language, but not one I know. It has a story, but I am in it. So are you. And to realize this is a moment of some sadness. When we are denied a story, a light goes off. I am asking you to study the dark.”

68. “Now I think it is true to say of the road, and also of God, that it does not move. At the same time, it is everywhere. It has a language, but not one I know. It has a story, but I am in it. So are you. And to realize this is a moment of some sadness. When we are denied a story, a light goes off. I am asking you to study the dark.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don’t think I can imitate it, but there’s a density to it that I think I’m always trying to push towards in English.”

69. “There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don’t think I can imitate it, but there’s a density to it that I think I’m always trying to push towards in English.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “You see the sun? – I built that.”

70. “You see the sun? – I built that.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “My mother forbad us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.”

71. “My mother forbad us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “When I desire you a part of me is gone: my want of you partakes of me.”

72. “When I desire you a part of me is gone: my want of you partakes of me.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Beginnings are special because most of them are fake.”

73. “Beginnings are special because most of them are fake.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “There is a moment when the water is not in one vessel nor in the other.”

74. “There is a moment when the water is not in one vessel nor in the other.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.”

75. “It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “A translator is someone trying to get in between a body and its shadow.”

76. “A translator is someone trying to get in between a body and its shadow.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-.”

77. “I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.”

78. “They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.”

79. “I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.”

80. “The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.”

81. “You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Some conversations are not about what they’re about.”

82. “Some conversations are not about what they’re about.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.”

83. “What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

84. “Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “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.”

85. “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.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. But his reckoning involves a.”

86. “Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. But his reckoning involves a.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God.”

87. “I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.”

88. “Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud.”

89. “XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “When I contemplate the physical spaces that articulate the letters ‘I love you’ in a written text, I may be led to think about other spaces, for example the space that lies between ‘you’ in the text and you in my life.”

90. “When I contemplate the physical spaces that articulate the letters ‘I love you’ in a written text, I may be led to think about other spaces, for example the space that lies between ‘you’ in the text and you in my life.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “As in childhood we live sweeping close to the sky and now, what dawn is this.”

91. “As in childhood we live sweeping close to the sky and now, what dawn is this.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Order streamed from Noah in blue triangles and as the pure fury of his classifications rose around him, engulfing his life, they came to be called waves by others, who drowned, a world of them.”

92. “Order streamed from Noah in blue triangles and as the pure fury of his classifications rose around him, engulfing his life, they came to be called waves by others, who drowned, a world of them.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “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.”

93. “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

Anne Carson Quote: “What are we made of but hunger and rage?”

94. “What are we made of but hunger and rage?”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. ‘Listen,’ he said, ’life and no escape.”

95. “My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. ‘Listen,’ he said, ’life and no escape.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “There is no person without a world.”

96. “There is no person without a world.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “In myth, women’s boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is penetrated, she suffers metamorphoses. The women of mythology regularly lose their form in monstrosity.”

97. “In myth, women’s boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is penetrated, she suffers metamorphoses. The women of mythology regularly lose their form in monstrosity.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “The moon makes a traveler hunger for something bitter in the world, what is it? I will vanish; others will come here, what is that? An old question.”

98. “The moon makes a traveler hunger for something bitter in the world, what is it? I will vanish; others will come here, what is that? An old question.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun.”

99. “It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.”

100. “Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.”

— Anne Carson

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