Quotes by : Anne Carson

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

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

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just....

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related....

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

Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for todayAdjudicateLegislateScandalizeCapitalizehere are Kreon's nounsMenReasonTreasonDeathShip....

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.....