Poetry Quote by Anne Carson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted”

“Girls are cruelest to themselves.”

“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling”

“[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.”

“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.”

“Now every mortal has pain”

“When by my solitary hearth I sit,”

“I yearn to make these scars disappear”

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.”

“Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father,”

“My candle burns at both ends;”

“If our two loves be one, or, thou and I”