Here comes Teiresias.
May 17, 2012
March 3, 2011
"I never found it possible to think without thinking about myself thinking. And I’m not sure if that’s a casualty of being me or a casualty of being human, so I decided to assume the latter and just go ahead with the project of thinking of me as if it were a legitimate human enterprise and would be enlightening to other humans."
— Anne Carson again, from her Paris Review interview again.
February 28, 2011
"At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. It prepares you for life as a Buddhist. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad."
— Anne Carson, in her interview with the Paris Review.
February 21, 2011
"It is February. Ice is general. One notices different degrees of ice."
— Anne Carson, from “Some Afternoons She Does Not Pick Up the Phone,” a poem in Decreation.
February 14, 2011
"I would like to grasp why it is that these two activities, falling in love and coming to know, make me feel genuinely alive. There is something like an electrification in them. They are not like anything else, but they are like each other."
— From Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet.
August 24, 2010
"I have had for some years on my computer a file called “Unpleasantness of Euripides,” in which I place at random thoughts on this subject, in hopes that the file will someday add up to an answer to the question, Why is Euripides so unpleasant?"
— Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons, her translation of four Euripides plays.
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Hey Dustin, how about getting booksellers to reenact this Cocteau?
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Is this a joke?
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New Year’s Day —
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.-Kobayashi Issa
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