277 Quotes by Anne Carson

We live by waters breaking out of the heart.

What are we made of but hunger and rage?

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan.

I shall not walk your ways again.

Some conversations are not about what they’re about.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.

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

After all why study the past? Because you may wish to repeat it.

Facts are bigger in the dark.