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"Eros shook my mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees you came and I was crazy for you and you cooled my mind that burned with longing." - Anne Carson, If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Vintage, 2003 Frames: Passing, Rebecca Hall (2021)
"Once Freud understood how repression works he was surprised and saddened. Should we think of ourselves as always hiding a part of ourselves from ourselves?"
- Anne Carson, 1 x 30, London Review of Books, Vol. 42 No. 5, 5 March 2020 Artwork: Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932
"Desire is fun while it's not ending. As soon as you get what you want you're no longer wanting." - Anne Carson, Gifts and Questions: An Interview with Anne Carson, Canadian Literature 176/ Spring 2003 Frames: In the Mood For Love, Wong Kar-wai (2000)
"I always say this but it’s true, there are so many things I don’t understand, I don’t mean steak tartare,
I mean irony, corpses, how to not see yourself everywhere in comparison. How to see instead what’s there." - Anne Carson, "Life", The New Yorker, June 2021 Artwork: Child Braiding A Crown (detail) 1874, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
"H of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I’ll stain you. Th: I’ll take it." - Anne Carson, H of H Playbook, 2021 Frames: Fleabag (2016-2019)
"Dear Krito, don’t come today. If you do, I’ll have to pretend to be asleep or ashamed or explain why I sent my wife home. Tears are all about the weeper, aren’t they? My kid has more sense. She was here, took one look around, said, It’s really damp in this place you need a hat, came back a half-hour later with that woolly cap you gave me last winter."
"Anyway, if you were here, I might not be able to get what you’re saying — on the other hand, beloved Krito, if you do come, can you bring another one of those woolly caps? I gave mine to the guard. He looked miserable. It’s really damp in this place." - Anne Carson, Sokrates to Krito (letter from prison), 2020 Frames: Hannibal (2013-2015)
"I like being with you all night with closed eyes. What luck—here you are coming along the stars! I did a road trip all over my mind and heart and there you were kneeling by the roadside with your little toolkit fixing something.
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was." - Anne Carson, O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love, 2020 Images: Polaroids taken by Andrei Tarkovsky
"There is no question I covet that conversation. There is no question I am someone starving. There is no question I am making this journey to find out what that appetite is." - Anne Carson, “Kinds of Water.” Grand Street, vol. 6, no. 4, 1987 Image Sourced From: https://finita--la--commedia.tumblr.com/post/190145480019/maliei-dmytro
"True I am but a shadow of a passenger on this planet but my soul likes to dress in formal attire despite the stains." - Anne Carson, "The Glove of Time by Edward Hopper", Men in the Off Hours Image Sourced From: The Hammer Museum Archives Anne Carson turns 71 today. Everything I know about love, I owe it to her.
"When we are denied a story, a light goes off. I am asking you to study the dark."
- Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Artwork: Thomas Ott, Dark Country, L'Apocalypse, 2013
"Women learn to veil things. Who likes to look straight at real passion?" - Anne Carson, Euripides to the Audience Image Sourced From: https://in.pinterest.com/pin/752804893966798465/
"Memory can edit reality in some such way, and then the edited version is too good to let go. Memory makes what it needs to make." - Anne Carson, A Lecture on Corners Image Sourced From: https://in.pinterest.com/pin/443604632052773449/
"When she smiles like that she is as beautiful as all my secrets."
- Anne Carson, “The Fall of Rome: A Traveller’s Guide,” in Glass, Irony, and God Artwork From: doodles and musings
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"My mother always closes her bedroom drapes tight before going to bed at night.
I open mine as wide as possible. I like to see everything, I say. What’s there to see?
Moon. Air. Sunrise. All that light on your face in the morning. Wakes you up. I like to wake up." - Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
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"I call to you, I touch your lips, I am your own little bird." - Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, from Alkestis; “Grief Lessons: Four Plays,” Artwork: Alexa Sharpe, Ang Panaad (The Vow)
"What next? What next if we are to survive this?" - Anne Carson, Ardor (Aghast), Granta, 2018 Artwork Sourced From: https://in.pinterest.com/pin/443604632052570962/
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"I am someone who did not die when I should have died." - Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides Frames: Le Fou Foullet, Louis Malle (1963)