277 Quotes by Anne Carson

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.

...And tonight—Geryon? You okay?Yes fine, I'm listening. Tonight—?Why do you have your jacket over your head?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Can't hear you Geryon. The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out. I said sometimesI need a little privacy.

Some conversations are not about what they're about.

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

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. Part of what you enjoy in a documentary technique is the sense of banditry. To loot someone else’s life or sentences and make off with a point of view, which is called “objective” because you can make anything into an object by treating it this way, is exciting and dangerous.

what song of death, what dance of Hades shall I do?

Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover isto watch the year repeat its days.It is as if I could dip my hand downinto time and scoop upblue and green lozenges of April heata year ago in another country.I can feel that other day running underneath this onelike an old videotape

As tree shapes from mist / Her young death / Loose / In you.