Anne Carson Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

  Anne Carson

  Pain, Quality, Principles

• Under the seams runs the pain.

  Anne Carson

  Running, Pain

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

• Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.

  Anne Carson

  Pain, Dark, Sweat

• Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.

  Anne Carson

  Love, Pain, Moving

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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