Quotes by : Anne Carson

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably....

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably....

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

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

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light.....

So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake the....

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She....

Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not....

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.