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

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

Anne Carson
Running, Want, Bittersweet
Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

Under the seams runs the pain.

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

Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Anne Carson
Beauty, Running, Moving

When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

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

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