I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me. Anne Carson Read Quote
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in. Anne Carson Read Quote
We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy. Anne Carson Read Quote
I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they’re both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that’s almost happening, never quite totally happening. Anne Carson Read Quote
