277 Quotes by Anne Carson

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and to this day I'm not sure we got it right. He seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully. Early next day I wrote a short talk ("On Defloration") which he stole and had published in a small quarterly magazine. Overall this was a characteristic interaction between us. Or should I say ideal. Neither of us had ever seen Venice.

Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

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

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