Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Anne Carson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”
“My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. ‘Listen,’ he said, ‘life and no escape.”
“Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care why anymore I just want to get away. When I look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my legs around it. When I watch you dancing there is a heartless immensity like a sailor in a dead-calm sea. Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls.”
“We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.”
“I suppose you do love me, in your way,” I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. “And how else should I love you —in your way?” he asked. I am still thinking about that.”
“The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.”
“M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more”
“Consider incompleteness as a verb.”
“You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.”
“What are we made of but hunger and rage?”
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