"Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what ..."
- Anne Carson
"What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away."
"Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time."
"He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew."
"XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud"
"Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for todayAdjudicateLegislateScandalizeCapitalizehere are Kreon's nounsMenReasonTreasonDeathShip of StateMineChorus: "mine" isn't a nounKreon: it is if you capitalize it"
"Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling."
"I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing."
"Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in ..."
"The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between."