You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
Anne CarsonYou remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
Anne CarsonTime isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne CarsonI do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
Anne Carson