Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. Anne Carson More Quotes by Anne Carson More Quotes From Anne Carson 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 reading adventure drama Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project. Anne Carson rupture stronger return What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure. Anne Carson confusing adventure book Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. Anne Carson heart song drama Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you. Anne Carson biting blunt mean He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew. Anne Carson fit trying Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public. Anne Carson female voice use When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain. Anne Carson dream rain running They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics. Anne Carson eels tanks two 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 gun stars perfect We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. Anne Carson glitter earth life All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things? Anne Carson liars mean lying Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. Anne Carson causes mind mistake I never really got over the fun of making letters. Anne Carson letters fun Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. Anne Carson sadness writing night Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue. Anne Carson philosopher communication men 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 emotional sensual thinking At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad. Anne Carson buddhist attitude thinking Lava bread makes you passionate. Anne Carson lava passionate bread Desire is no light thing. Anne Carson light desire
