277 Quotes by Anne Carson

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

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

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.