Anne Carson Quotes about Pain

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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

Pain, Quality, Principles

Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.

Anne Carson

Love, Pain, Moving

Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

Under the seams runs the pain.

Anne Carson

Running, Pain

Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.

Anne Carson

Pain, Dark, Sweat

Anne Carson Quotes about Pain

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