You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
Anne CarsonA thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.
Anne CarsonA page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
Anne Carson