“If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.” IfsWayWritingHappensLife IsSentences Author:Anne Carson
“Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.” WorldMadeDifferentHopeful 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
“Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.” FeltSoundAudiencePressureCome UpEpicSellersBest SellersEpic Poems Author:Anne Carson
“I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.” MeanTwoLanguageComfortableCompareWornWorn OutOdysseyIliad Author:Anne Carson
“Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.” MeanComfortableBluntBiting Author:Anne Carson
“Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.” ThinkingStillsWholeSchoolRememberLanguageEnjoyTaughtRemember WhenCursive Author:Anne Carson
“If you're a foolhardy, braggadocios male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.” IfsWantFightingFiguresMalesFoolhardy Author:Cody Rhodes