“We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.” LifeHumansSeemsEarthGlitter Author:Anne Carson
“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
“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.” IfsKnowsHumansSeemsEarthPainDarkFantasyAliveConstantMortalsSweatBlankGlitterUnderworld Author:Anne Carson
“What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.” WorldLooksSeemsNamesInnocentGreekMechanismSomewhere ElseVerbsAdjectivesNounsActivateLatches Book:Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.” WorldWritingSometimesDreamSeemsKeysSentencesNonsenseAnother World Author:Anne Carson
“There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.” WantDifferentFactsSeemsCertainStageFar AwayPersonaPersonhoodStages Of Life Author:Anne Carson
