Anne Carson Quotes

DEATH. . .And now you are here to fight for this woman.You know her promise is given.She has to die or her husband won't go free.APOLLORelax, I'm not breaking any laws.DEATHWhy the bow, if you're breaking no laws?APOLLOI always carry a bow, it's my trademark.

~ Anne Carson

You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.

~ Anne Carson

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

~ Anne Carson

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

~ Anne Carson

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.

~ Anne Carson

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

~ Anne Carson

And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them (now) into this nakedness together that is unforgivable.

~ Anne Carson

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

~ Anne Carson

Some conversations are not about what they're about.

~ Anne Carson

So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake the entirety of thecommon sense of humansand put it in the palm ofyour hand and still haveroom for your dick.

~ Anne Carson