Anne Carson Quotes

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987.

She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

She has also won a Lannan Literary Award. Wikipedia

✵ 21. June 1950

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Famous Anne Carson Quotes

“while the shadows like long fingers
over the haystacks that sweep past
keep shocking him
because he is riding backwards.”

"Father’s Old Blue Cardigan", Men in the Off Hours, Knopf (New York, NY), 2000.

“She doesn't get to say much in the official biography —
I believe they are out of wine, etc.,
practical things —
watching with one eye as he goes about the world
calling himself The Son Of Man.”

"God's Mother", Glass, Irony, and God, New Directions (New York, NY), 1995.

“My religion makes no sense
and does not help me
therefore I pursue it.”

"My Religion", Glass, Irony, and God, New Directions (New York, NY), 1995.

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