Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Anne Carsonis a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 June 1950
CountryCanada
moving thinking long
I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
writing drawing scary
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.
life glitter earth
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
mother men breakfast
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
block white miracle
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.
self effort desire
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
mistake mind causes
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ocean blessed night
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
writing acceptance thinking
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.
believe writing ideas
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.
verbs incompleteness
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
cutting orange toss
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
time made abstraction
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
english-poetry
I never had much education in English poetry as such,