277 Quotes by Anne Carson

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

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

at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…

I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.

It is very coldwalking into the long scraped April wind. At this time of the year there is no sunsetjust some movements inside the light and then as sinking away.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

to carry one's own door will make a personclumsy, tired and strangeon the other hand, it may come in usefulif you go places that don't have an obvious way in, like normalityor an obvious way out, like the classic double bind

Wife of Braindon't say you weren'texpecting a volcano thosered wingsthat not even bad love can tamemust signify something'ssomewhereabout to go up in flame or(as Proust says) beeternalized in pleasurelike the menin a Pompeian house of illfate yet fameis not illfor all