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”

“LIII.”

“[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”

“Girls are cruelest to themselves.”

“Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.”

“Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate...”

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,”

“She knew she was really sad when she stopped loving the things she loved.”

“So sweet and delicious do I become,”

“I surrendered my identity in your eyes.”

“One! two! and through and through”

“But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,”