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

“[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”

“Now every mortal has pain”

“LIII.”

“You remember too much,”

“Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care why anymore I just want to get away. When I look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my legs around it. When I watch you dancing there is a heartless immensity like a sailor in a dead-calm sea. Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls.”

“Girls are cruelest to themselves.”

“dance”

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;”

“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product”

“In visions of the night, like dropping rain,”

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”

“Firm was my resolve”