Quotes from Anne Carson

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.

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

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.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.