Primo Quotes

Anne Carson

Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award

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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, becau ...

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me ...

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky p ...

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts ...

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its ...

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living ...

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and ...

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother ...

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhis ...

XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt ...

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never ju ...

Lava bread makes you passionate.

LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.