“ When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his person, an influx like eros becomes a concrete personal threat. So in the lyric poets, love is somethin… Anne Carson
“ The basic rules of male-female relationswere imparted atmospherically in our family,no direct speech allowed. Anne Carson
“ Somehow Geryon made it to adolescence. Then he met Herakles and the kingdoms of his life all shifted down a few notches. ... Geryon was going into the Bus Depot one Friday night about three a.m. to ge… Anne Carson
“ Banal sexism aside,I find myself temptedto read as one thick stacked act of revengefor all that life withheld from Emily.But the poetry shows traces of a deeper explanation.As if anger could be a kin… Anne Carson
“ Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Anne Carson
“ 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… Anne Carson
“ My mother always closes her bedroom drapes tight before going to bed at night.I open mine as wide as possible.I like to see everything, I say.What’s there to see?Moon. Air. Sunrise.All that light on y… Anne Carson
“ I walk and walk with cold hands.Back at the house it is filled with longing,nothing to carry longing away.I look back over my life.I try to find analogies.There are none.I have longed for people befor… Anne Carson
“ [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say j… Anne Carson
“ He felt Herakles' hand move on his thigh and Geryon's head went back like a poppy in a breeze Anne Carson
“ Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.There's no one alivewho can say if he will be tomorrow.Ou… Anne Carson
“ To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you. Anne Carson
“ Do you have change for a dollar? Geryon heard Geryon say. No. Herakles stared straight at Geryon. But I'll give you a quarter for free. Why would you do that? I believe in being gracious. Some hours l… Anne Carson
“ Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous,… Anne Carson
“ Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin having to die. There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other p… Anne Carson
“ Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in… Anne Carson
“ To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?' asks a dog in a novel I read once (Virginia Woolf Flush 87). I wonder what the smell of nothing is. Smell of aut… Anne Carson
