Anne Carson Quotes - Page 5

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

I never really got over the fun of making letters.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

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

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

Lava bread makes you passionate.

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.