“The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.” ThinkingKindPersonsDifferentSeemsLanguageMorningOriginalsMetaphorCome UpGreek Author:Anne Carson
“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.” TryingMindHumansLittlesPersonsUseBigsLightTurnsDarkPagesExpectingTranslateFloodLuminousProwling Author:Anne Carson
“The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.” PersonsBeautifulBlackAnimalBehindsLoversSingingMadShiningTrainPaintTeethInnocencePlanesBelovedBehind YouHelenMad Person Book:Plainwater: Essays and Poetry Source: Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
“There is no person without a world.” WorldPersons Book:Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.” KindPersonsGroupsTraditionPretentious Author:Anne Carson
“I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindPersonsEffectsAcceptanceHappeningsEdgesRevelationsTerrifiedNever QuitInfatuated Author:Anne Carson
