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1. "You read a hundredmilitary manuals you won't find the word kill they trickyou into killing." ~ Anne Carson
2. "To feel anything deranges you. To be seenfeeling anything strips younaked. In the grip of itpleasure or pain doesn'tmatter. You think whatwill they do what newpower will they acquire ifthey see me naked likethis. If they see youfeeling. You have no ideawhat. It's not about them.To be seen is the penalty." ~ Anne Carson
3. "She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone's arm after you grab it?" ~ Anne Carson
4. "You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."Madness doubled is marriageI addedwhen the caustic was cool, not intending to producea golden rule." ~ Anne Carson
5. "Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women." ~ Anne Carson
6. "Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song." ~ Anne Carson
7. "I am a drop of gold he would sayI am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-" ~ Anne Carson
8. "They were two superior eelsat the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics." ~ Anne Carson
9. "Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,while the first snows of winterfloated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silencedall trace of the world." ~ Anne Carson
10. "Consider incompleteness as a verb." ~ Anne Carson
11. "The fact that Anna is somewherehaving coffee or a dreamis an assault on me.I hate these moments of poverty.What does man eat? ask the phenomenologists.Like the dogs, names,down there,starving." ~ Anne Carson
12. "English is a bitch" ~ Anne Carson
13. "Depression is one of the unknown modes of being.There are no words for a world without a self, seen with impersonal clarity.All language can register is the slow returnto oblivion we call health when imagination automatically recolors the landscapeand habit blurs perception and languagetakes up its routine flourishes." ~ Anne Carson
14. "These days Geryon was experiencing a pain not felt since childhood.His wings were struggling. They tore against each other on his shoulderslike the little mindless red animals they were." ~ Anne Carson
15. "Geryon was a monster everything about him was red" ~ Anne Carson
16. "LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death." ~ Anne Carson
17. "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." ~ Anne Carson
18. "Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.All mortals owe a debt to death.There's no one alivewho can say if he will be tomorrow.Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery.No one can teach it, no one can grasp it.Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink!But don't forget Aphrodite--that's one sweet goddess.You can let the rest go. Am I making sense?I think so. How about a drink.Put on a garland. I'm surethe happy splash of wine will cure your mood.We're all mortal you know. Think mortal.Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,it's just catastrophe." ~ Anne Carson
19. "I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure." ~ Anne Carson
20. "he stood against the wind and let it peel himclean" ~ Anne Carson
21. "M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or else lie so I lie I just lie who are they who are the storytellers who can put an end to stories" ~ Anne Carson
22. "There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me." ~ Anne Carson
23. "Town of the Dragon VeinIf you wake up too early listen for it.A sort of inverted whistling the sound of sound.Being withdrawn after all where?From mountains but.They have to give it back.At night just as.Your nightly dreams.Are taps open reversely.In.To.Time." ~ Anne Carson
24. "Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan" ~ Anne Carson
25. "Well, they said, these are the pies we have. It was a proverb." ~ Anne Carson
26. "Time as hunger.Time passing and gazing.Time as perseverance.Mountain time.Time as paper folded to look like a mountain.Time compared to the wild fantastic silence of stars." ~ Anne Carson
27. "In later years thisis the one memory hewishes would go away andnot come back. And thereason he cannot bear herdying is not the loss of her(which is the future) butthat dying puts the two ofthem (now) into thisnakedness together that isunforgiveable. They do notforgive it. He turns away.This roaring air in hisarms. She is released." ~ Anne Carson
28. "When I desire you a part of me is gone..." ~ Anne Carson
29. "Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing." ~ Anne Carson
30. "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." ~ Anne Carson
31. "Under the seams runs the pain." ~ Anne Carson
32. "Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling." ~ Anne Carson
33. "Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches.Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt.He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds.I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside." ~ Anne Carson
34. "Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing." ~ Anne Carson
35. "When they made loveGeryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' backas it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way downfrom the base of the neckto the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain." ~ Anne Carson
36. "A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive." ~ Anne Carson
37. "He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet." ~ Anne Carson
38. "Caught between the tongue and the taste." ~ Anne Carson
39. "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..." ~ Anne Carson
40. "He had a respect for facts maybe this was one." ~ Anne Carson
41. "That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attemptedalthough married six months.Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and to this day I'm not surewe got it right.He seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully.Early next dayI wrote a short talk ("On Defloration") which he stole and had publishedin a small quarterly magazine.Overall this was a characteristic interaction between us.Or should I say ideal.Neither of us had ever seen Venice." ~ Anne Carson
42. "THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem." ~ Anne Carson
43. "Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue." ~ Anne Carson
44. "...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoughts. / Even when they were lovers / he had never known what Herakles was thinking. Once in a while he would say, / Penny for your thoughts! / and it always turned out to be some odd thing like a bumper sticker or a dish / he'd eaten in a Chinese restaurant years ago. / What Geryon was thinking Herakles never asked. In the space between them / developed a dangerous cloud." ~ Anne Carson
45. "[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let's buy it what a bargain!" ~ Anne Carson
46. "Now every mortal has painand 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 blankand all the rest just fantasy." ~ Anne Carson
47. "I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life." ~ Anne Carson
48. "I never had much education in English poetry as such." ~ Anne Carson
49. "I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life." ~ Anne Carson
50. "I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me." ~ Anne Carson
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