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
population language hungry
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
body burning language
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
mean odyssey language
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.
school thinking language
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.
people want assuming
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
existence
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
self poverty dare
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
light practice skins
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
dear binding
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
fashion asking realizing
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself,
mind movement use
You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough,
light desire
Desire is no light thing.
communication men philosopher
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
thinking always-trying greek
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.