Anne Carson

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM

— Anne Carson

That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted

— Anne Carson

[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling

— Anne Carson

You remember too much,

— Anne Carson

Now every mortal has pain

— 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 jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

— Anne Carson

My religion makes no sense therefore I pursue it.

— Anne Carson

while the shadows like long fingers because he is riding backwards.

— Anne Carson

My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. ‘Listen,’ he said, ‘life and no escape.

— Anne Carson

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.

— Anne Carson

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.

— Anne Carson

Girls are cruelest to themselves.

— Anne Carson