277 Quotes by Anne Carson

When I desire you a part of me is gone...

Although a monster Geryon could be charming in company.

And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.

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

I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.

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

I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

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.

God’s pity! How long will it feel like burning?