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eros is in between.
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“What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.”
― Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
― Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
Anne Carson Quotes (Author of Autobiography of Red)
“What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching ever... See more
Anne Carson Quotes (Author of Autobiography of Red)
“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson Quotes (Author of Autobiography of Red)
“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”
―
Anne Carson,
Eros the Bittersweet
―
Anne Carson,
Eros the Bittersweet
A quote from Eros the Bittersweet
The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
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