Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea...
ANNE CARSON Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSON I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they&...
ANNE CARSON When they made love
Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' bac...
ANNE CARSON Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSON The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch...
ANNE CARSON As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest ri...
ANNE CARSON When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his per...
ANNE CARSON Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not...
ANNE CARSON Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, ...
ANNE CARSON A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something rela...
ANNE CARSON When I desire you
a part of me
is gone.
ANNE CARSON As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest ri...
ANNE CARSON The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never ju...
ANNE CARSON To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living ...
ANNE CARSON Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into so...
ANNE CARSON [Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running t...
ANNE CARSON I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a conv...
ANNE CARSON [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. Sh...
ANNE CARSON Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSON LIII.
What is the holiness of conversation?

It is
to master death.
ANNE CARSON There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me ...
ANNE CARSON Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin ar...
ANNE CARSON I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing.
ANNE CARSON Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.
Have you given much thought to our mortal con...
ANNE CARSON It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitive...
ANNE CARSON all the tall mad mountains of her mind
ANNE CARSON Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test...
ANNE CARSON Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full...
ANNE CARSON I used to think when I was younger and writing that each idea had a certain shape and when I started...
ANNE CARSON Small, red, and upright he waited,
gripping his new bookbag tight
in one hand and touching...
ANNE CARSON How does distance look?" is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge...
ANNE CARSON He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSON DEATH
. . .
And now you are here to fight for this woman.
You know her promise is giv...
ANNE CARSON We're more effective than birth control pills.
JOHNNY CARSON Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a struct...
RAE CARSON I decided a long time ago to be unfiltered and wholly myself in these areas of social media. I'v...
RAE CARSON I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classr...
RAE CARSON I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the S...
RAE CARSON I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is a...
RAE CARSON I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
RAE CARSON It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling wor...
RAE CARSON I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was four years old. Sure, I thought Princess Lei...
RAE CARSON Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions ...
RAE CARSON I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - conte...
RAE CARSON I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only...
RAE CARSON I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
RAE CARSON I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I wa...
RAE CARSON I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many cou...
RAE CARSON 'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those...
RAE CARSON I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
RAE CARSON When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from reader...
RAE CARSON The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
RAE CARSON I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's eas...
RAE CARSON The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying t...
RAE CARSON I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when i...
RAE CARSON My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, t...
RAE CARSON I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books....
RAE CARSON Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in term...
RAE CARSON No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken plac...
JOHNNY CARSON We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
JOHNNY CARSON We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON A lot of guys have tons of talent, but it boils down to the mental side of things. Preparing and kno...
CARSON WENTZ Names that come to mind that I've learned from are Tom Brady - the way he gets the ball out and ...
CARSON WENTZ While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
CARSON MCCULLERS Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished...
CARSON MCCULLERS One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said...
CARSON KRESSLEY It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little h...
RACHEL CARSON Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwis...
RACHEL CARSON As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of l...
RACHEL CARSON In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorro...
CARSON MCCULLERS The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t...
RACHEL CARSON Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...
RACHEL CARSON If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
JOHNNY CARSON The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
JOHNNY CARSON The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biol...
RACHEL CARSON All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hun...
CARSON MCCULLERS If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
JOHNNY CARSON Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
RACHEL CARSON My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
JOHNNY CARSON For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
JOHNNY CARSON One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons ...
RACHEL CARSON It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national ...
CARSON MCCULLERS No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The peop...
RACHEL CARSON Through all these new, imaginative, and creative approaches to the problem of sharing our earth with...
RACHEL CARSON Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as ...
RACHEL CARSON There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not kn...
RACHEL CARSON New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
JOHNNY CARSON We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are...
RACHEL CARSON If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one a...
RACHEL CARSON If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult w...
RACHEL CARSON In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survi...
RACHEL CARSON Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
JOHNNY CARSON The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but ...
RACHEL CARSON Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.
RAE CARSON For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pit...
RACHEL CARSON Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classma...
BEN CARSON There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns ...
BEN CARSON I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
FRANK CARSON I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
FRANK CARSON Timing and accuracy is really what matters at the end of the day.
CARSON WENTZ Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
BEN CARSON Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
JOHNNY CARSON You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was ...
CARSON DALY God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those...
BEN CARSON The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems...
BEN CARSON I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the roo...
CARSON DALY There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
BEN CARSON A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. T...
BEN CARSON Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within...
BEN CARSON When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap wa...
CARSON DALY I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, ...
CARSON DALY If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off...
CARSON DALY I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I wa...
CARSON DALY My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens wh...
CARSON DALY MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Ma...
CARSON DALY You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.
CARSON DALY It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I...
CARSON DALY I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
CARSON DALY I really like it that they promote from within.
CARSON DALY Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy abou...
CARSON DALY The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't w...
CARSON DALY NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.
CARSON DALY The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there...
CARSON DALY No one's on at my time but infomercials.
CARSON DALY It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.
CARSON DALY Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wante...
CARSON DALY A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try...
CARSON DALY I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
CARSON DALY Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good...
CARSON DALY A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
CARSON DALY When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great...
CARSON DALY It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress....
CARSON DALY I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perha...
BRAD CARSON Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided st...
BEN CARSON I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good le...
BEN CARSON At the end of the day, you just want to go to a team that believes in you... and hopefully wants to ...
CARSON WENTZ I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day h...
JOHNNY CARSON It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find l...
BEN CARSON I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that peop...
SOFIA CARSON The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your...
BEN CARSON It's sort of 'We're the poor step-sister of Phoenix' in many ways.
BILL CARSON I think it's going to have a huge impact on the city. Sure, the day of the race is going to be excit...
BILL CARSON Twenty years ago it was about drinking and being hung over. Now people want to go out and have a spe...
BILL CARSON People pace themselves differently these days.
BILL CARSON It's a far larger production than most people realize.
BILL CARSON Being at NDSU and winning national championships, everyone's gunning for you. You got a big targ...
CARSON WENTZ I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare we...
BEN CARSON We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the p...
BEN CARSON You look beautiful," Alodia says.
I startle at the compliment. Then I smile. "I’m beautiful ...
RAE CARSON Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as ...
RACHEL CARSON Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have...
CARSON MCCULLERS I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.
BEN CARSON Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word &#...
DAVID CARSON People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look...
ANDRE CARSON It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, bec...
BEN CARSON But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and De...
BEN CARSON I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can r...
CARSON DALY In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling po...
BEN CARSON Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the...
DAVID CARSON If the team's winning, I'm going to do whatever I can to help the team, whether that's f...
CARSON WENTZ I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom...
BEN CARSON I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be...
BEN CARSON I always loved Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'. I always thought I looked like her, so I d...
SOFIA CARSON The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it wa...
FRANK CARSON I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody beg...
DAVID CARSON It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the ti...
CARSON KRESSLEY I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
CARSON MCCULLERS We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in RACHEL CARSON We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERS I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imag...
RAE CARSON Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're sayi...
BEN CARSON One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do ...
BEN CARSON I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in grou...
DAVID CARSON The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur...
RACHEL CARSON Maine has effectively eliminated all household products that contain mercury from store shelves and ...
BROWNIE CARSON They have no right to develop this land unless they put a persuasive case in front of the people of ...
BROWNIE CARSON We believed then, and we believe even more strongly now, that it's the wrong development in the wron...
BROWNIE CARSON Some people have said that the only game in town is the Plum Creek plan. We believe that there is an...
BROWNIE CARSON This alternative vision is offered as a concept for interested parties to consider, evaluate, discus...
BROWNIE CARSON If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only the...
DAVID CARSON I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the pers...
BEN CARSON It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the ...
RACHEL CARSON If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to re...
BEN CARSON In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
JOHNNY CARSON It was a great win for our program. We're really young, and they needed some confidence to build on,...
BRAD CARSON I told the girls to stick right in there and keep hitting and we'll get the job done.
BRAD CARSON These issues, as important as they are, have little chance of passing this year.
BRAD CARSON