Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you. Anne Carson More Quotes by Anne Carson More Quotes From Anne Carson I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid. Anne Carson opinion space want 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 teacher years school 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. Anne Carson always-trying greek thinking Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women. Anne Carson distrust fake love-is 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. Anne Carson mother men breakfast 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 starting-over expression mean Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope. Anne Carson hopeless giving philosophy DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark. Anne Carson husband fighting law Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. Anne Carson pity ocean mother Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty. Anne Carson dare poverty self Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty. Anne Carson existence Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench. Anne Carson binding dear 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. Anne Carson assuming want people
