What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
Anne CarsonThe Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
Anne CarsonYou used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
Anne CarsonIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
Anne Carson