Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Anne Carsonis a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 June 1950
CountryCanada
stronger rupture return
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.
grief tragedy doe
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
god would-be emptiness
I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
doe helping help-me
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
struggle mean talking
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.
time moving mean
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
people soul stories
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
groups kind tradition
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
eels two tanks
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
running dream rain
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.
taken giving world
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
desire and-love madness
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
wall moving simple
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
gertrude poet difficult
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.