Quotes by : Anne Carson

LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't....

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

But when justice is done the world drops away.

Some conversations are not about what they're about.

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional....

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the....

And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts....

That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attemptedalthough married six months.Big....