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“Sublime natures are seldom clean!”

Philosophy Anne Carson Decreation

Book:Longinus: On the Sublime

Source: Longinus: On the Sublime

“He refuses, he is in the stairwell, he disappears”

Grief Dying Brother Anne Carson

Book:Nox

Source: Nox

“Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing to be seen hiding.”

Silence Mute Anne Carson Nox

Book:Nox

Source: Nox

“[Ibykos fr. 286 translated using only words from p. 47 of Endgame by Samuel Beckett] In your kitchen, on the one hand, bright corpses starting to stink of having an idea, where one of my legs [is] and beneath sooner or later the whole universe doesn't ring and won't work. On the other hand, I shouldn't think so. Nay Rather, like a speck in the void, pacing to and fro, accompanied by the alarm, frankly, angrily, impatiently, not very convinced, [it] kisses me goodbye. I'm dead. (Pause).”

Poetry Endgame Beckett Anne Carson Nay Rather

Author:Anne Carson

“It had rained suddenly at suppertime, now sunset was startling drops at the window. Stale peace of old bedtimes filled the room. Love does not make me gentle or kind, thought Geryon as he and his mother eyed each other from opposite shores of the light.”

Anne Carson Geryon The Autobiography Of Red

Book:Autobiography of Red

Source: Autobiography of Red

“Si la prosa es una casa, la poesía es un hombre corriendo en llamas a través de ella.”

Poesía Anne Carson

Author:Anne Carson