Anne Carson Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

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

  Anne Carson

  Running, Want, Bittersweet

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

• Under the seams runs the pain.

  Anne Carson

  Running, Pain

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

• When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

  Anne Carson

  Running, Dream, Rain

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

• Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

  Anne Carson

  Beauty, Running, Moving

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