277 Quotes by Anne Carson

Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.

Your grief is as great as your splendor was: some god is weighing the one out equal to the other.

You see the sun? – I built that.

Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.

Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

I went mad, a god hurt me, I fell.

You know who I am. You know my naked power.

Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. But his reckoning involves a.

Water is something you cannot hold. Like men. I have tried, Father, brother, lover, true friends, hungry ghosts and God, one by one all took themselves out of my hands.