277 Quotes by Anne Carson

… his voice saying,You beauty. I can feel that beauty’sheart beating inside mine as she presses into his arms in the high blueroom–

… in between the neighbour who recalls hercoming in from a walk on the moorswith her face “lit up by a divine light”and the sister who tells usEmily never made a friend in her life,is a space where the little raw soulslips through.

I’m a strange new kind of inbetween thing aren’t Inot at home with the dead nor with the living

There is no person without a world.

If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it".

He / thought of women. / What is it like to be a woman / listening in the dark? Black mantle of silence / stretches between them like geothermal pressure. / Ascent of the rapist up the stairs seems as slow as / lava. She listens / to the blank space where / his consciousness is, moving towards her. Lava can / move as slow as / nine hours per inch. [...] She wonders if / he is listening too. The cruel thing is, she falls asleep / listening.

Pylades: I’ll take care of you.Orestes: It’s rotten work.Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

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.