Anne Carson Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

  Anne Carson

  Burning, Body, Language

  Anne Carson (2000). “Plainwater: essays and poetry”, Vintage Books

• We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.

  Anne Carson

  Struggle, Mean, Talking

  "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

• A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

  Anne Carson

  Population, Language, Hungry

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

• Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

  Anne Carson

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.224, Vintage

• The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.

  Anne Carson

  Morning, Thinking, Greek

  "Anne Carson's Poetry Collection 'Float' In Unconventional Medium To Suit The Message". Interview with Scott Simon, listen.sdpb.org. October 22, 2016.

• I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

  Anne Carson

  Mean, Two, Odyssey

  Source: www.npr.org

• Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

  Anne Carson

  School, Thinking, Taught

  Source: www.npr.org

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