277 Quotes by Anne Carson

Your separateness could kill you unless I take it from you as a sickness.

Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Are there two ways of knowing the world – a submissive and a devouring way?

When I contemplate the physical spaces that articulate the letters ‘I love you’ in a written text, I may be led to think about other spaces, for example the space that lies between ‘you’ in the text and you in my life.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.

26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more.

This was when Geryon liked to plan his autobiography; in that blurred state, between awake and asleep. When too many intake values are open in the soul, like the terrestrial crust of the earth.