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Quotes About Emotion

When I contemplate the physical spaces that articulate the letters 'I love you' in a written text, I may be led to think about other spaces, for example the space that lies between 'you' in the text and you in my life.
~ Anne Carson
All lovers believe they are inventing love.
~ Anne Carson
for when I look at you, even for a moment, no speaking is left in me
~ Anne Carson
I had not been in love before. It was like a wheel rolling downhill.
~ Anne Carson
Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. But his reckoning involves a
~ Anne Carson
Yellow? said Geryon. And he was thinking Yellow! Yellow! Even in dreams he doesn't know me at all! Yellow!
~ Anne Carson
From girl to woman to who I am now, from love to anger to this cold marrow, from fire to shelter to fire.
~ Anne Carson
To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.
~ Anne Carson
like a girl gone mad, in blood, in smoke, in a wedding of murder
~ Anne Carson
I loved him for his beauty. As I would again if he came near. Beauty convinces.
~ Anne Carson
what is the difference between poetry and prose you know the old analogies prose is a house poetry a man in flames running quite fast through it
~ Anne Carson
Unsociable even at home and unable to meet the eyes of strangers when she ventured out, Emily made her awkward way across days and years whose bareness appalls her biographers.
~ Anne Carson
Aidos ("shame") is a vast work in Greek. Shame vibrates with honor and also with disgrace, with what is chaste and with what is erotic, with coldness and also with blushing. Shame is felt before the eyes of others and also in facing oneself...shame is a split emotion.
~ Anne Carson
I cannot not grieve.
~ Anne Carson
As tree shapes from mist / Her young death / Loose / In you.
~ Anne Carson
When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right.
~ Anne Carson
Why does motion sadden him?
~ Anne Carson
Forró volt a hang, mint egy szín belseje.
~ Anne Carson
How does distance look?" is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved.
~ Anne Carson
Youth is a dream where I go every night and wake with just this little jumping bunch of arteries     in my hand.
~ Anne Carson
Outside the dark pink air was already hot and alive with cries.
~ Anne Carson
XIII. HERAKLES' KILLING CLUB Little red dog did not see it he felt it All events carry but one
~ Anne Carson
To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked. In the grip of it pleasure or pain doesn't matter. You think what will they do what new power will they acquire if they see me naked like this. If they see you feeling . You have no idea what . It's not about them . To be seen is the penalty.
~ Anne Carson
When I desire you a part of me is gone...
~ Anne Carson