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Anne Carson, born on June 21, 1950, is a renowned Canadian poet. Her works are known for their unique style and profound themes, covering a range of subjects including philosophy, history, and literature.

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Famous Anne Carson Quotes

“If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.”

Ifs Way Writing Happens Life Is Sentences

Author:Anne Carson

“Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.”

Writing Night Sadness Goes On Garments

Book:Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Source: Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.”

World Writing Sometimes Dream Seems Keys Sentences Nonsense Another World

Author:Anne Carson

“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”

People Writing Mean Two Desire Eros

Book:Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

“When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.”

People Should Writing Believe Ideas Teach No Idea

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.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Persons Effects Acceptance Happenings Edges Revelations Terrified Never Quit Infatuated

Author:Anne Carson

“Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Done Draws Scary Drawing Disguise Revealing Could Have Been Drawers

Author:Anne Carson

About the Author

Born: June 21, 1950
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 162

Books & Sources

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in VerseRelated source material

Plainwater: Essays and PoetryRelated source material

Eros the Bittersweet: An EssayRelated source material

Glass, Irony and GodRelated source material

Autobiography of RedRelated source material

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 TangosRelated source material

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by EuripidesRelated source material

NoxRelated source material

AntigonickRelated source material

Glass, Irony, and GodRelated source material

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