149 1. ', 'Why does tragedy exist? And I said, Where can I put it down? ― Anne Carson, quote from Autobiography of Red, “What is an adjective? Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. Perfection is less interesting. who share an affinity for books. submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to We’d love your help. Moments of death I call them. Welcome back. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.' They are the latches of being.”, “Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”, “A man moves through time. . The cruel thing is, she falls asleep / listening.”, “Somehow Geryon made it to adolescence. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. (11.4K votes), “Words bounce. 323 quotes from Anne Carson: 'You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The world poured back and forth between their eyes once or twice.”, “Do you have change for a dollar? “Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.”, “A man moves through time. Eros is in between.”. “Why does tragedy exist? Why hold onto all that? ― Anne Carson, quote from Autobiography of Red, “They were two superior eelsat the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.” He exists because certain boundaries do. ― Anne Carson, quote from Autobiography of Red, “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.” You okay?Yes fine, I'm listening. He put Geryon's hands inside his shirt.”. philosophy by which we live. ― Anne Carson, quote from Autobiography of Red, “...And tonight—Geryon? and to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For an instant God suspends assent and poof! Beauty spins and the mind moves. Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. Everything that one can tell of God or write, no less than what one can think, of God who is more than words, is as much lying as it is telling the truth. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. . we disappear.” These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. The huge night moved overhead scattering drops of itself. “Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.”. ANNE CARSON, preface, Eros the Bittersweet. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. And for others, it's something much more powerful, something yet to be seen.” ― Anne Carson, quote from Autobiography of Red, “Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.” Services that store e-book files may require registration, please read the terms carefully. ― Abra Ebner, quote from Book of Love, “Zayvion swore, and I mean he pulled out a raft of curses that made me rethink his upbringing.” . Because you are full of grief. ANNE CARSON, Autobiography of Red There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. “ he came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a suspended moment living. Like his skin color ( Red ), “ he / thought of women realize I never can like harpoon. Of us a quote offer you some of us a quote ( cognate with quota ) is a book. 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